In Vladimir, at the Prince Vladimir cemetery, memorial plaques dedicated to the victims of political repression during the Stalin years were dismantled. Kommersant writes about this with reference to the Greek Catholic priest Ilya Astapov, who was the first to notice the loss.
It is unknown who removed the signs.
Thus, it is reported that tablets dedicated to the Ukrainian Archimandrite Klimenty Sheptytsky, the Lithuanian Catholic Archbishop Mecislovas Reinis, the Polish politician Jan Jankowski and the Japanese General Akikuse Shun have disappeared. All these persons died in the Vladimir Central prison. They were buried in a mass grave at the Prince Vladimir cemetery.
Previously, the wall with memorial plaques was visited by foreign diplomats, including the Polish Ambassador to Russia Krzysztof Krajewski there in March of this year.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has repeatedly mentioned the horrors of repression in his speeches and articles. “We remember the crimes committed by the regime against its own people and the horrors of repression. There are many things for which one can reproach Soviet leaders,” the Russian president wrote in a 2020 article entitled “Real Lessons from the 75th Anniversary of World War II.”
Source: Rosbalt
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