Ulaanbaatar
Diplomatic mission in Moscow pays respect to political repression victims
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On the occasion of the Day of Victims of Political Repressions, Mongolian charge d’affaires to Russia Ch.Battomor, the diplomatic mission staff and students in Moscow have paid their respects to the memory of the political repression victims, by visiting the memorial for Mongolian nationals, who were executed, in Moscow. This memorial is located in the place, once was a secret project site of the People’s Commissionerate of the Domestic Affairs Ministry of the former Soviet Union.
“…The secret site named “Kommunarka” was legally the summer house of G.G.Yagoda, a people’s commissioner of the Soviet Ministry of Domestic Affairs. People who were framed up for political charges were shot dead between September 2 of 1937 and October 16 of 1941 and have been buried at this place. The politically repressed had been shot in large collectives until October of 1938, and had begun to be executed in groups of few people starting from 1939. On 27, 28 and 30th of July, 1941, shortly after the beginning of the World War II, 513 people were shot dead. The most grievous day in Moscow’s history was October 16 of 1941, when 220 people were killed”, reads the memorial board.
People from about 60 nations rest in peace here, inclusive 400 Mongolian citizens.
