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Andrey Sakharov Museum - Russia
The Museum's extensive “Totalitarian Past” exhibit includes photographs and maps of forced labour camps (GULAGs), Stalin decrees, propaganda literature and posters, underground literature and photographs and short biographies of some of the people who were arrested, imprisoned and killed for their convictions. Other permanent displays are “Conditions of Freedom — Russia's contemporary problems” and “Andrey Sakharov — His life and Work”. In 1997 the Museum mounted several changing exhibits “25 Years of Doctors Without Frontiers”, “Freedom Through Eyes of Yuri Rost: photographic essays”, “Refugees in Moscow” etc. Changing exhibits provide a forum for current problems or current social commentary. |
Gulag Museum - Russia
Perm, Russia The Gulag Museum is the only preserved labor camp in Russia. Between 1946 and 1987 “several thousand men, many charged only with the ‘crime’ of free speech, were transported under the cover of night to this maximum security prison to serve sentences as long as 25 years.” Today, the museum staff is focusing on preserving and reconstructing the camp, which contains historical research, artifacts, documents, and oral history. |
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