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"History teaches nothing?": Unknown individuals are plotting provocations at a memorial event for victims of the Great Terror in Sandarmokh, Karelia.

The Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Terror is celebrated today in Sandarmokh. According to a NeMoskva correspondent, a stele dedicated to the "Victims of the Repressions of 1937-1939 and the Victims of the Finnish Occupation during the Great Patriotic War" has already been unveiled.

"It seems provocations are being planned. Offensive posters about the Finns and Emilia Slabunova are hanging from trees. Masked men, Cossacks, and war songs are present." — a NeMoskva correspondent reports from the scene. 

"Finns, are you backing fascism again? Doesn't history teach us anything?" "Emilia Edgardovna, why are you there where there's fascism, LGBT, and pedophilia?"  - written on posters.

The day before, activists who came to read the names at the memorial site for the victims of Stalin's executions Red Bor, They noticed that several columns with Polish and Ukrainian names were missing, as well as a Christian cross tied to a pine tree, which had been erected by the Polish community of Petrozavodsk. 

A large, consecrated Catholic cross previously stood at this site, but it was also stolen by unknown assailants. Its disappearance was noticed by a delegation led by Polish Ambassador Krzysztof Krajewski, who visited Krasny Bor on January 12 of last year. The cross had been uprooted. Only fragments of a figurine of Jesus Christ remained on the ground.

NeMoskva reported that two activists planning to attend a protest in Sandarmokh were searched this morning. Unknown individuals broke into their apartment. Andrey Litvin. According to the latest data, the blogger Alexey Trunov Detained. Reasons unknown.

Photo: "NeMoscow", From Karelia with Freedom