Irkutsk Art Museum presents a film in memory of victims of political repression

On the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression, the Irkutsk Art Museum will present the film-interview "The Candle of Remembrance", created in 2019 by the creative team "ALTERA" (cameraman and editor Vadim Altukhov, director - Deputy Director for Science of the Irkutsk Art Museum Irina Ternovaya). The premiere will take place on the official YouTube channel of the museum on October 30 at 12:00. The documentary is dedicated to the memory of Irkutsk people who were subjected to political repression in the 30-50s of the XX century.

On October 30, Russia celebrates the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression. On this day, millions of people are remembered who were unreasonably subjected to repression: sent to forced labor camps, into exile or deprived of their lives.

Officially, this memorable day was established by the decree of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of October 18, 1991 "On the establishment of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression" The date was chosen in memory of the hunger strike that the prisoners of the Mordovian and Perm camps began on October 30, 1974. Political prisoners announced it in protest against political repression in the USSR.

According to the law "On the rehabilitation of victims of political repression", political repressions are various measures of coercion applied by the state for political reasons, in the form of deprivation of life or freedom, placement for compulsory treatment in psychiatric hospitals, expulsion from the country and deprivation of citizenship, eviction of population groups from places of residence, referrals to exile, deportation and special settlement, recruitment to forced labor under conditions of restriction of freedom, as well as other deprivation or restriction of the rights and freedoms of persons recognized as socially dangerous for the state or political system according to class, social, national, religious or other featured.

Link to the film premiere https://youtu.be/wLmAHWABXaA