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Mon 20.9.

FOCUS EASTERN EUROPE | HEINRICH BÖELL STIFTUNG

7.30pm Wiped out, cleared up, reinterpreted? The reactions to Stalinism

with Swetlana Alexijewitsch (Belarus), Andrei Sorokin (Russia), Arsenij Roginskij (Russia) und Lascha Bakradse (Georgia)

PRESENTER: Jens Siegert

Stalin’s government was responsible for the deaths of over ten million people. The opinion of him in the post soviet era is varied. For many he is the hero “who won the war”. To a minority in Russia he is a tyrant how murdered millions and brought extreme suffering. For a long time he was referred to as “Our Stalin” in Georgia, the land of his birth. Stalin is very often both, Hero and Tyrant - in that order. All national memories normally focus on the victims, not the perpetrator. Why are the crimes of Stalin not being re-examined? Why is there no real acknowledgement of these facts in Russia? Why do the legal evaluations stress the nationalist element of terror more than the political or social? Which positions will be taken up by post-soviet society? What position will the state take? In cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung.