DOMUS PATRIS
Kseniya Lyubimova
Not to Forget [2:26]
Kseniya Lyubimova is the author of the memorial book for victims of the Butovo firing range.
Kseniya is one of the searchers who diligently collect information on people that died as martyrs in the many places of mass murders and burial places in U.S.S.R.
They reopened the NKVD archives, investigated secret papers and took the lid off truth. The descendants of these martyrs need this sad job to be done so that they know the fate of their relatives.
Kseniya Lyubimova’s Interview
Interviewer: And so, now… Were you always religious?
Lyubimova: Always, but not church-going.
Interviewer: But you did go to church, right?
Lyubimova: No, I didn’t go to church very often. I had my son baptized and we had funerals for my nearest relatives. Back then, you know, going to church wasn’t really the thing to do.
Interviewer: That’s why I’m asking, I mean, in that period of the Soviet era it was equivalent to an act of heroism.
Lyubimova:...
Shooting grounds in the former USSR
The NKVD, an acronym for Narodnyj Komissariat Vnutrennych Del, that is “The Commissariat of People for Internal Affairs”, was established in the very early months after the Bolshevik revolution – from November 1917 and January 1918 – and it started immediately its action against the “enemies of the people”.
At the end of the ‘20s, during the second crisis of the USSR government, the system reinforced its politics of repression, violence and mas...
Testimonies
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Elda Veselova
The Fate of the Children [3:04]
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Kseniya Lyubimova
Not to Forget [2:26]
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Soviet Families
The war against family [3:14]
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Archimandrite Nikolai Sokolov
Remember the Past [2:24]
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Soviet Life
Learn how to dodge [3:01]
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Valentina Puzik
A Prospective Nun [2:34]