Walking through Moscow, you may pass by a small steel plaque no larger than your hand. These plaques are affixed to apartment buildings and bear nothing more than a few dates and a name. The dates do not recall some world-famous event. They are the dates of the birth, death, arrest, and rehabilitation of political prisoners. The names are not those of Moscow’s most famous inhabitants. They are the names of husbands and wives, parents and children, and homemakers and accountants. After seeing humble memorials to the victims of the Holocaust in Germany, journalist Sergey Parkhomenko decided to create similar …read more
Source: Victims of Communism
