Grief without a statute of limitations: how the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression was held at the Butovo training groundtranslated

At the end of October, on the 30th, in Russia, according to an already established tradition, they celebrated the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression.

On this day, at the Butovo training ground in Moscow - the site of mass executions and burials of victims of political repression, incl. many clergy and laity, now glorified as new martyrs, visited photojournalist Marina Mamaeva.

She captured how the memory of all those innocently killed was honored in this mournful and at the same time important historical place not only for the capital, but for all of Russia.

Traditionally, the day of remembrance began with a service in the Church of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in Butovo, which was led by Bishop Silouan of Pavlovo-Posad.

Then the memorable events continued on the territory of the “Garden of Memory” memorial, where, during the “Voice of Memory” action, execution lists with the names of those who became victims of repression were read out.

Let us recall that the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression was established in connection with two events that occurred on the same date - October 30.

Firstly, on October 30, 1974, political prisoners in the camps of Mordovia and Perm went on a hunger strike to protest against repression for political reasons in...