Activists established a cross in the tract "Warm woods" near the village Łužasna Viciebsk region. And restore one of the crosses on the edge of the village near Chajsy – put in place a new stolen by unknown vandals.

"Warm woods" as a place of mass executions often appears in the memories of local residents. For information about Stalin's repressions in the vicinity of Viciebsk collects long-activist of the Conservative Christian Party Belarusian Popular Front Jan Dzyarzhautsau. It is up to local old-timers, and had a chance to hear about the shootings in "warm woods," says an activist:

"In the tract "Warm wood" from the beginning of the 1930s there were executions of civilians. With about a month ago I was brought here a respected man who lived near here when I was a kid. And told me that as a child he and two guys went at dusk in the "Warm woods." And we saw that the car rides, stops, not turning off the lights. With the body expel people – guys saw their figures, and then heard gunshots. And there was a lot of times, and not once."

Jan Dzyarzhautsau decided that the memorial cross to stand in the place which have a witness – under the mountain, in a marshy hollow, very close to the highway leading from Viciebsk to Łužasna. On the cross affix the activists: "In memory of the innocent victims of Stalin's terror, were shot in the tract" Warm Forest "butchers of the NKVD in the years 1931-40 on the orders of the Soviet regime." On the cross tied mourning black tape and the tape with the Belarusian national ornament at the bottom put a lighted candle, put flowers.

Cross with a sign similar content, adorned with ribbons, she appeared on the edge of the village near Chajsy, Viciebsk region. There are also the stories of local residents, in 1930 there were Stalin's executions. But the supposed site of the shooting a few years ago, visited the "black diggers", the execution of unknown victims were dug up, and residents of nearby villages began to be indignant that the woods are scattered human bones. The situation did not change even appeal to the police and the local authorities: the villagers said, "not to meddle in their affairs are not."

The question of dumping investigation raised Vitsebsk activists, who created the public initiative "Chajsy". A year ago, there appeared the first crosses, consecrated priest. Some time later, a homemade memorial has consisted of five crosses, installed along the edges of the large pits, which contained human bones and skulls with bullet holes.

Now, the work of an unknown military burial search Battalion caused finally the local authorities. Officials of the village council claimed that the unknown burial near Chajsy – the time of the Great Patriotic War, and ignore the evidence gathered by the activists of the local people about Stalin's executions.

In September, unknown vandals stole all five commemorative crosses. Jan Dzyarzhautsau wrote about this statement to the police. The criminal case officers of the Viciebsk police department for some reason, was not initiated, but check on the application began. Vandals have not yet been found, but there were four crosses, two of them in the swamp nearby happened to notice the CCP BPF activist Sergei Kovalenko, two found Jan Dzyarzhautsau along with a policeman, who carried out the inspection.

Now, the fifth of the cross, which disappeared mysteriously and still has not been found, activists have set a new one.

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