Another photo of a plaque I took at Moscow's #SolvetskyStone outside of #Lubyanka. In Russian and English, it says:

"During the years of terror, over 40,000 people were shot in Moscow on groundless political charges. Their bodies were buried in the cemetery of Yauza Hospital (Now Hospital 23) between 1921 and 1926; at Vagankovo Cemetery between 1926 and 1935 and cremated at the Moscow (Donskoi) Crematorium from early 1930s, until, at least, the 1950s. Starting in 1937, two NKVD execution sites - the Moscow suburb of Butovo and the Kommunarka Collective Farm - were also used as burial places. More detailed information on this subject is available at Memorial Society at: 12 May Karetny Pereulok."

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The WaPo article reminds me of my first trip to #Russia in 2008. One of my private tour stops was to the #SolovetskyStone, commemorating those lost in the #Gulag. Ironically, it's located just outside the former #KGB 's notorious #Lubyanka Prison.

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It used to puzzle me that BiblioGlobus, the bookstore on #Lubyanka, had a wide selection of glossy editions of #Chomsky. Why would the KGB bookstore sell anarchist books? And why that one and not Russian classics like Kropotkin? Took reading first 20 pages of one book to see why.