Overview
- RIA Novosti reports that a national Museum of Memory dedicated to victims of the genocide of the Soviet people is planned to open in Moscow this year.
- Natalia Kalashnikova, who leads the Smolensk Fortress museum, has been appointed director of the new institution.
- Director Konstantin Bogomolov praised the planned opening as a great deed and said the museum would help new generations learn about Nazi crimes and compatriots’ suffering and feats.
- Theater director Eduard Boyakov said the museum will act as a center for defending historical memory and deliver an accusatory conclusion against the ideology of hatred.
- Boyakov cited thousands of pages of declassified archives as evidence of a planned genocide of the Soviet people and urged protecting the truth about the Great Patriotic War.