On October 28, Vorobiev forest that at Viciebsk, members of the civil initiative "Chajsy" had another pounding at the burial site of repressed during Stalin in the 30-ies of the last century.
For the first time the general public became aware of an unknown grave in October 2014, when a party member of the CCP BPF Jan Dzyarzhautsau together with his associates found in a forest near the village of Chajsy black diggers unearthed the grave.
A damp autumn day did not become a hindrance to the installation of several crosses near the holes, of which one year ago soldiers of the 52nd Battalion of the individual search recovered the remains of 172 unknown persons. As previously reported in the press in early October, several coffins with remains of these local authorities reburied at the military memorial station Luzhesno as the victims of war.
Two years authorities simulated activities and convince the public that they are also interested in determining the exact time of the destruction of unknown persons, but assurances were empty words. Agreeing with the findings of the authorities are not going to members of the initiative: the veneration of the place they consider it my civic duty.
In addition, says the head of Jan Dzyarzhautsau Initiative, the locals told him about the new mass graves repressed, who are closer to the village of Chajsy. It turns out that before the war to the NKVD these places were a great training ground for the destruction and disposal of the repressed citizens. According to members of the initiative, distorting history and hiding the truth from the public, the authorities have put themselves on a par with the Soviet punitive.
Most of the members of the initiative "Chajsy" – people far younger, some were born before the war, so the current toloka for them is not just a kind of civil case, as a tribute to the time and the people who were victims of the Soviet totalitarian regime. They understand that, in spite of the military carried out the exhumation, they could not for one month to find all the graves and remove from the earth all the bones, so this place requires care and reverence.
To make it easier for people to find in the forest path to the memorial, community activists have put a few pointers. Now get to Forest Hill and lay flowers at the crosses of memory can not only occasional visitors of the forest, but also the citizens, whose relatives were killed in the Viciebsk prison in the 30s, and who do not know the exact place of burial.
Everyone dug into the ground of the cross community activists lit candles, which represent the symbolic flame of memory of the victims of the Stalinist regime.
