Signs to victims of political repression were dismantled at the Vladimir cemetery
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Memorial plaques dedicated to the victims of political repression during the Stalin years have disappeared from the Prince Vladimir Cemetery. Greek Catholic priest Ilya Astapov drew attention to this and wrote about it on Facebook (owned by Meta, a company recognized as extremist in Russia).
Commemorative plaques were dedicated to the Ukrainian Archimandrite Klimenty Sheptytsky, the Lithuanian Catholic Archbishop Mecislovas Reinis, the Polish politician Jan Jankowski, as well as the Japanese general Akikuse Shun. They all died in the Vladimir Central prison and were buried in a mass grave at the Prince Vladimir cemetery. It is unknown who removed the signs.
Klimenty Sheptytsky was shot for refusing to cooperate with the Soviet authorities. In 1995, Israel’s Holocaust research center Yad Vashem declared him a “Righteous Among the Nations” for saving more than one hundred Jews during World War II. In 2001, the archimandrite was beatified by the Catholic Church.
The wall with memorial plaques was visited by foreign diplomats after the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. There in March was Ambassador of Poland to Russia Krzysztof Krajewski. He laid flowers at the memorial plaque to Jan Jankowski.
In June of this year in St. Petersburg, unknown persons were seen from the former Kresty prison removed a memorial plaque with a famous quote from Anna Akhmatova’s poem “Requiem”.
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