[Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Thu Dec 25 14:44:44 UTC 2008


> Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
>> I fail to see how simply presenting a list of peoples' names and
>> telling their
>> stories constitutes "taking partisan sides in political disputes."
>> It's
>> educating people about the impact of these events, plain and simple.
>>
> If we cannot present the personal tragedy of those individual
> foot-soldiers who were actually pulling the triggers, we are taking
> sides.
>
> Ec

The stories of the Gestapo and MKVD operatives could be worked in. Out of
privacy considerations we might want to go a bit easy on names. This
remains true of victims too. Some remain anonymous.

Fred





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