For several years, Vitebsk activists caring for a place of memorial crosses between the villages Palai and Varony in the Vitebsk region, which is dedicated to the victims of Stalinist repression of 1937-38, when the local forests have found their final resting repressed residents of Vitebsk and the surrounding area.

According to local residents of the burial took place in 1937-38, when the prison of Vitsebsk arrested and convicted by a court speedy Stalinist Soviet citizens of Belarus were shot en masse and buried in the woods around Vitebsk. Now it is no longer alive witnesses who in the late 90-ies of the last century, historians and local historians told about the terrible history of the surrounding forests.

This year, members of the Belarusian Popular Front party, as in previous years, cleaned the place of the memorial. Whipped grass, plagued aggressive invader - cow parsnip Sosnowski - from the area around the nearby forest and crosses the road obkopali flowers growing around the cross and planted new ones. It happened in a memorable day on June 22 when, according to ancient custom, remember the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people against the German fascist invaders.

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