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The Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus (Belarusian: Віртуальны музей савецкіх рэпрэсій у Беларусі, romanized: Virtualny muzej saveckich represij u Biełarusi) is a non-commercial project of oral history from historians and other scientists from Belarus.[1] Created as a virtual museum, it covers Soviet repression in Belarus.
Background
editIn 2007, the Belarusian Christian Democracy party launched a campaign called "Repentance". The campaign began meeting with former prisoners of camps, record their memories, and collect materials on the subject of repression.[2]
In 2012, an independent civic initiative was formed, which began to create a Virtual museum of Soviet repression in Belarus. The basis for the museum was materials collected during the campaign "Repentance".[citation needed]
In 2014, a website for the virtual museum was created.[3] The museum is only available online; there is currently as of 2020 no physical exhibition of the material.
Concept of the museum
editThe museum operates with an approach of oral history by presenting recordings of inhabitants of Belarus who report on their personal experiences with Repression during the Soviet time. The museum covers a part of Belarusian history that is mainly excluded from current Belarusian official historiography.[4]
The content of the exhibition consists of recordings of audio- and video-recollections,[5] photographs, documents, and statistics connected with repression in Belarus. Also, a chronicle of the repression in Belarus and some historical articles are included.
As of 2020[update], the museum includes seven showrooms:[6]
- Soviet myths
- Chronology of repression
- Victims of repression
- The system of repression
- Anti-Soviet resistance
- Rehabilitation
- Commemorative culture
Among the museum's special features are, besides the narrative interviews, inter alia interactive maps of the NKVD[7] in Belarus, and memorials on repression.[8] In addition, the museum offers a victim-search option with more than 30,000 records.[9]
Partners
editAmong the partners of this project are Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Belarusian Oral History Archive project.[10]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Horne, Cynthia M.; Stan, Lavinia, eds. (2018). Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union: Reviewing the Past, Looking Toward the Future. Cambridge University Press. pp. 125, 131, 405. ISBN 978-1108195829.
- ^ "BCD campaign "Repentance"". bchd.info (in Belarusian).
- ^ "Radio Racyja - Internet museum about repressions victims created". racyja.com (in Belarusian). 29 October 2014. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ "Historian: The theme of Stalin political repression is not reflected in schoolbook either in movies". Naviny.by (in Russian). 28 February 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
- ^ "Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus". YouTube. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ "Залы | Музей савецкіх рэпрэсій". represii.net. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
- ^ "КАРАТЕЛЬНЫЕ ОРГАНЫ". represii.net (in Belarusian). Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ "ПАМЯТНИКИ И МЕМОРИАЛЬНЫЕ ЗНАКИ". represii.net (in Russian). Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ "ПОИСК РЕПРЕССИРОВАННЫХ". represii.net (in Belarusian). Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ "ПРА ПРАЕКТ". represii.net (in Belarusian). Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus. Retrieved May 24, 2015.