The interior Ministry denied reports about the destruction of archival data on repression in the USSR
Moscow. June 8. INTERFAX.RU — Deputy interior Minister Igor Zubov has denied the information on destruction of the archival documents of the repressed in the USSR, reported the press service of the Council on human rights under the President of the Russian Federation.
“Today at the meeting of the presidential interagency group to coordinate activities aimed at implementing the concept of state policy on perpetuating of memory of victims of political repression member of the group, the Executive Director of “Memorial” Elena Zhemkova raised the question about the fate of record cards with information about the repressed in the Soviet years” — said “Interfax” in press-service.
“Participating in the meeting, another member of the interdepartmental group, state Secretary, Deputy Minister of internal Affairs of Russia Igor Zubov said that the cards are a document of strict accountability and must be kept forever. As for the lack of cards or one specific prisoner, then the issue should be considered separately”, — said in the HRC.
That the situation with the destruction of archival documents of the repressed in the USSR, detected in the Magadan region, reported “Interfax” the specialist documentation Centre of the Museum of the history of the Gulag Alexander Makeev.