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A TRUE STATESMAN: Putin commemorated Stalin purge victims at the Butovo firing range in 2007
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Stalin's Great Purge: Mass Grave in Moscow Suburbs is Among Russia's Holiest Sites
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In the forest near old Butovo, about 5 kilometers south of the Moscow Ring Road, lies the largest burial place for victims of Stalin's purges in the whole Moscow region, a site of mass executions. At the small plot of land known as the Butovsky Shooting Range or Butovsky Poligon, about 20,760 people were executed between August 1937 and October 1938. Among this were men and women, the old and the young, people from 70 different nationalities and many faiths and social classes.
Seventy-seven years ago, in August 1937, the head of the NKVD ordered a high fence be erected around a remote five-hectare patch of oak forest glade. The construction was largely ignored by locals, who were told the site would be a shooting range, a rumor that frequent gunfire seemed to verify.
More than 20,000 people were executed at the site in a little more than a year — an average of about 50 people per day. The diversity of those executed was stunning, including South African communists, Polish nationalists, Germans, Hindus, Chinese, Tatars and Jews. However, the site specialized in executions of Orthodox Christian clergy, targeted by the Soviet Union as supposedly counter-revolutionary elements in their atheist state.
About 1,000 of the victims were clergy from the Russian Orthodox Church, and about 300 people from that number have since been beatified as saints. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Orthodox Church began commemorating the site, establishing a small wooden church on the site in 1996 and a larger church that has been active since 2007. Since the year 2000, the patriarch has led an annual service in the church of the martyrs to commemorate those killed in Butovo.
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Moscow's Butovo shooting range unites Christians in joy of resurrection
To the uninitiated, there is nothing particularly spiritual about the neglected Butovo region in the south of Moscow. But there are few places where Chrisitanity's defining miracle can be felt as deeply than at the region's church, which was literally built on the bones of victims of Stalin's terror. As here at Butovo shooting range, or as it also called Russian Golgotha, tens of thousands of people were shot by Stalin's secret police for what was called then anti-Soviet conspiracy.
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In the 'special zone' or 'shooting range' called Butovo, in the Southern outskirts of Moscow, from 1937 to 1953, 21.000 people were executed. Nearly one thousand were priests; almost 200 of them have been canonized as martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Kirill, the grandson of Fr. Vladimir Ambartsumov - a priest executed there and venerated today as a saint martyr - participated in the excavation of this mass grave, once the KGB reopened the Butovo Ground and its archive for researchers. Some of these specialists and Kirill himself, introduce us to this place of horror, where nowadays thousands of descendants of the people murdered at Butovo, can come and pray.
Location shootings of the Butovo area, historical photographs, black and white fiction scenes, and shootings from original archives about Vladimir Ambartsumov, contribute to the high level of veracity the film transmits. Tastefully chosen classic music helps to focus on the theme of remembrance which the author of this film intended to convey.
Russia: Residents evacuated after discovery of explosives cache in Butovo
A collection of weapons and explosives were discovered in the Butovo district in Moscow on Friday, prompting the evacuation of around 100 residents. Authorities were called in to clear the ammunition from the site and transport it to a nearby firing range.
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Commemorations for annual 'Day of Political Prisoners'
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1. Wide of Church of New Martyrs and Confessors and a wooden cross at Butovo memorial site
2. Mid of church domes with crosses
3. Wide of people, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, standing inside the church during service
4. Mid of Putin crossing himself
5. Mid of people standing, holding candles
6. Mid of children holding candles
7. Pan right of Russian Patriarch Alexy II holding religious service
8. Close-up of candles
9. Wide of Putin and Alexy II walking towards wooden cross
10. Zoom-out of Putin and Alexy II laying flowers
11. Close-up of red carnations
12. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian President:
Such tragedies recurred in human history not once. These tragedies occurred when ideals that seemed attractive but turned out to be empty were put above the fundamental values: human life, rights and freedom.
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13. Various of inmates of the Gulag prison system
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14. Pan left of rights activists standing
15. Mid of activists holding photographs of relatives and carnations
16. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Sergey Volkov, head of the Association of Victims of Political Repression:
They (the victims of the repression) are being humiliated by the higher authorities. So the question is who is to blame for this? It's the fault of the man who has stepped with one foot into democracy and still stands with another in KGB - our president, Vladimir Putin.
17. Wide of Solovky stone monument
18. Close-up of candles
19. Close-up woman crying
20. Mid of woman touching Solovky stone monument, zoom-in to hand on stone
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, visited a monument to victims of Josef Stalin's purges on Tuesday, a day dedicated to the memory of victims of political repression.
He attended a service at the Church of New Martyrs and Confessors, built recently at the Butovo site south of Moscow, where firing squads executed thousands of people 70 years ago during the height of Stalin's purges.
He then walked through the Butovo site with Alexy II, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Butovo firing range was used for executions from 1930 until after Stalin's death in 1953.
Some 20-thousand people, including priests and artists, were killed there in 1937-38 alone.
Speaking outside Putin said that: Such tragedies recurred in human history not once. These tragedies occurred when ideals that seemed attractive but turned out to be empty were put above the fundamental values: human life, rights and freedom.
But the annual holiday has taken on extra significance this year, the 70th anniversary of the Great Purge of 1937.
Rights activists held their own rally on Tuesday at a square in front of the former KGB headquarters and warned that Russia under Putin was returning to its Soviet past.
They (the victims of the repression) are being humiliated by the higher authorities. So the question is who is to blame for this? It's the fault of the man who has stepped with one foot into democracy and still stands with another in KGB - our president, Vladimir Putin, said Sergey Volkov, head of the Association of Victims of Political Repression.
Putin, a former KGB officer, has tried to soften the public perception of Stalin's rule as part of an effort to restore Russians' pride in their Soviet-era history.
When speaking to a group of history teachers in June, he said that although the 1937 purge was one of the most notorious episodes of the Stalin era, no one should try to make Russia feel guilty about it because in other countries even worse things happened.
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New Tragic Memorial Opens at a Stalinist Mass Execution Site
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Names of over 20,000 political persecution victims have been set in stone in the Memory Garden memorial. It was opened today on the Butovo range near Moscow. The memorial looks like it opens a shooting ground. If you go down, you'll find yourself where dead bodies were lying in the 1930s. Olga Meshcheryakova reports on the memory that's stronger than death.
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Prayer in the forest near the Butovo district in Moscow
Prayer in the forest near the Butovo district in Moscow, Russia.
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President Vladimir Putin attended a gala evening marking National Guards’ Day, which was celebrated for the first time this year, Kremlin, Moscow, March 27, 2017.
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Descendants of Stalin's victims set historical record straight
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In Russia, if you look hard enough, there are traces of the painful history of the Stalinist era all around.
But for the uninitiated, the signs can be hard to spot.
Now a team of historians and volunteers is trying to set the record straight, working with descendants of those murdered by Stalin's regime.
And with meticulous work, they're bringing Russia's tragic and complicated history to life.
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This barbed wire fence rings a site which witnessed some of the worst atrocities of Stalinist rule.
The Butovo firing range, south of Moscow, is the final resting place of thousands.
Today, the site is maintained by the Russian Orthodox Church, which was handed control in 1994.
Priest Kirill Kaleda is the dean of the church at the site.
This is one of the places where people were buried. Well, maybe buried is the wrong word - it would be more accurate to say this is the place where the remains of those who were killed were interred. Human remains were tossed here, from the edge of a ditch, he says.
The Butovo firing range was used as an execution ground and burial site in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, but precisely how many people died here may never be known.
Records suggest more than 20,000 were executed in just one 12-month period between 1937 and 1938, suggesting a final death toll many times higher.
For Kirill Kaleda, that terrible history has a personal dimension.
His grandfather Vladimir Ambartsumov, who was also a priest, was murdered here by the Soviets in the 1930s.
His family wouldn't learn of the death for another five decades.
People whose family members were shot here in 1937 were lied to, Kirill Kaleda says.
They were told that their relatives had been sentenced to 10 years of hard labour. They were told they were off working in camps, and that they'd forfeited the right to receive correspondence. Later, relatives were told that their loved ones had died of disease at the camps, and during the war they were even given documents that seemed to corrobrate that. In our family, for example, it wasn't until 1989 that I learned that my grandfather was shot here. And then, when I tried to find out where he'd been shot and where he'd been buried, I was told that the exact place was unknown. All we were told was, somewhere in Moscow.
Remarkably, Kirill Kaleda's quest to find out more about his grandfather didn't end there.
In 1994, he met a woman whose father had been prosecuted at the same trial as his grandfather.
Using official records, they pinpointed the site of the burial, a place subsequent exhumations revealed contained the remains of 150 people.
Today a garden, a bell and a list of those known to have died here stand in their memory.
Eventually we did find the place where my grandfather's remains were buried. If he had been sent to Siberia or Kazakhstan, we would never have known where he'd been killed. He could have been buried under sand or under snow and we would never have found him, Kirill Kaleda says.
Helping the families of those murdered under Stalinist rule is a complex task.
At Moscow's Gulag History Museum, workshops are held every month for families looking to learn how to navigate Stalinist era records.
For Denis Vinokurov, who is attending this workshop, the task is difficult, but important.
Museum official Alexander Makeev is delivering one of the workshops.
While helping others, he is also trying to find information about murdered members of his own family.
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Russian Plaques Mark Final Homes Of Stalin's Victims
Russian activists added Yekaterinburg to the list of cities honoring the memory of political prisoners killed during the rule of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
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Arrival of Patriarch ALEKSEY II @ Butovo Consecration
The bell ringer is amazing! This vid shows the patriarch's arrival at the consecration of the church dedicated to the 20,000 Rusian Orthodox killed on the Butovo Field (a portion of the 20 million recorded Russian New Martyrs) who were killed by the Bolsheviks under Communism
Day of Remembrance: Ordinary Russians Remember Countless Victims of Brutal Bolshevik Repression
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On the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions in Russia, they remember by naming the political prisoners who had to go through the camps during a difficult period of our history. The all-Russian campaign Bell of Memory united those who came to the memorial service on that day from Magadan to the Butovo Shooting Range and the Wall of Grief and visited memorial services in churches.