Memorial site: Kommunarka

Four kilometres from the ring road to the South West of Moscow, along the old Kalouga Road, the former dacha of the People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs Yagoda – baptized after the name of the “Kommunarka” sovkhoz, property of the NKVD during the Stalinist period –does not have any road signs no...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/temoigner,
Autor Principal: Jurgenson, Luba
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado: Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire 2022
Acceso en liña:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:Four kilometres from the ring road to the South West of Moscow, along the old Kalouga Road, the former dacha of the People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs Yagoda – baptized after the name of the “Kommunarka” sovkhoz, property of the NKVD during the Stalinist period –does not have any road signs nor indications inside public transportation to take you in this direction. Visitors are dependent on locals’ good faith and sense of direction, most of whom ignore this place or have only a vague id...