A monument to Lithuanian and Polish victims to Stalin’s deportations has been demolished in Russia’s Perm region, the Russian NGO Memorial said.
“The machinery drove off-road, bypassing settlements, to prevent the locals who maintain the cemetery from getting angry,” reported Alexei Kamenskikh, a Memorial activist in Perm.
According to the organisation, the demolished monument was noticed by local residents.
The monument was erected in August 2016 in the cemetery of the former village of Galashor, which existed between 1939 and 1970.
Founded in 1989, Memorial has been working for decades to expose the crimes committed by Stalin’sregime. The organisation also documents human rights violations present-day in Russia.
At the end of 2021, a few months before Putin sent troops to Ukraine, Russian officials disbanded Memorial, accusing it of violating the law.
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