December 5 at the edge of the cemetery near the village Baraŭlany of Viciebsk region members of the Conservative Christian Party Belarusian Popular Front and the party "Belarusian Popular Front" established a homemade cross to perpetuate the memory of those shot by the Nazis during the war, civilians and guerrillas.

As our readers well know, in recent years in the Viciebsk region found at two places of mass executions of Soviet citizens during the time of Stalin's repression representatives of the public initiative "Chajsy" have established a number of memorial crosses. And this is a place of mass graves that witnesses are dated 1942-1943 years, was to remember and almost the first time.

The fact that at the boundary of the cemetery and the field is the mass grave of the Second World War, one of the founders of the initiative "Chajsy", a member of the CCP BPF Jan Dzyarzhautsau learned from a resident of the village Mazałava Lidia Ivanovna Sukhodolskaya that from before the war lived in Baraŭlany. In September, the activists brought her to the cemetery, and she showed the place of execution.

Here is what Lidia Ivanovna: "Here on the field near the cemetery and shot – I know, because here in the cemetery, my little brother was buried. I myself did not see how to shoot people, but I heard, as in the village said: "Today the car has brought the prisoners and shot near the cemetery." It was forty-two or forty-third year. There was a big hole. She first stood open, and then shot – and corpses are filled by sand. In the pit, probably a hundred people lay. Long shot. I know that. And on the other side of that town, the Germans hanged Galuzo Marina and the boy she was shot."

According to Jan Dzyarzhautsau, last year they were interviewed nearly two dozen residents of Viciebsk and the surrounding villages – Mazałava, Drykolle, Baraŭlany, Łužasna, Chajsy. Most of them are uniquely correlated burial near the village of Chajsy with the prewar period, and burial near Baraŭlany since the war.

On this account, Mr. Jan has an opinion, their view of the situation: "I asked Lidia Ivanovna and that the Germans shot somebody in the woods behind Chajsy. She clearly said "No". This cross Baraŭlany we decided to establish because neither the district government nor the local did not even know about this place. In this connection the question arises: "If in the woods near Chajsy in fact, according to the authorities, the Germans shot Soviet citizens, then why do they still had to carry sentenced to death here in Baraŭlany?" Somehow illogical turns, between these places only a couple of kilometers. Besides Chajsy closer. Maybe the point is that there is advice shot, and then the Germans? However, the authorities do not want to resonance because of repression, burials, as condemnation of Stalinism like "Nuremberg Trials" in our country was not. As the power of the Soviets was here and stayed."

S. Horki