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The Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus () is a non-commercial project of
oral history Oral history is the collection and study of historical information from people, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people who pa ...
from historians and other scientists from
Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...
. Created as a
virtual museum A virtual museum is a digital entity that draws on the characteristics of a museum, in order to complement, enhance, or augment the museum experience through personalization, interactivity, and richness of content. Virtual museums can perform as ...
, it covers
Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
repression in Belarus.


Background

In 2007, the
Belarusian Christian Democracy The Belarusian Christian Democracy (; ; BCD or BKhD) is a Christian-democratic political party in Belarus, established in 2005, which claims to be the continuation of a identically named movement, which existed at the beginning of the 20th cent ...
party launched a campaign called "Repentance". The campaign began meeting with former prisoners of camps, record their memories, and collect materials on the subject of repression. In 2012, an independent civic initiative was formed, which began to create a Virtual museum of Soviet repression in Belarus. The basis for the museum was materials collected during the campaign "Repentance". In 2014, a website for the virtual museum was created. The museum is only available online; there is currently as of 2020 no physical exhibition of the material.


Concept of the museum

The
museum A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...
operates with an approach of
oral history Oral history is the collection and study of historical information from people, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people who pa ...
by presenting recordings of inhabitants of Belarus who report on their personal experiences with Repression during the
Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
time. The museum covers a part of Belarusian history that is mainly excluded from current Belarusian official historiography. The content of the exhibition consists of recordings of audio- and video-recollections, photographs, documents, and statistics connected with repression in Belarus. Also, a chronicle of the repression in Belarus and some historical articles are included. , the museum includes seven showrooms: * Soviet myths * Chronology of repression * Victims of repression * The system of repression * Anti-Soviet resistance * Rehabilitation * Commemorative culture Among the museum's special features are, besides the narrative interviews, inter alia interactive maps of the
NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (, ), abbreviated as NKVD (; ), was the interior ministry and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946. The agency was formed to succeed the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) se ...
in Belarus, and memorials on repression. In addition, the museum offers a victim-search option with more than 30,000 records.


Partners

Among the partners of this project are
Konrad Adenauer Foundation The Konrad Adenauer Foundation ('' German: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.; Abbreviation: KAS'') is a German political party foundation associated with but independent of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The foundation's head ...
and the Belarusian Oral History Archive project.


See also

*
Soviet repressions in Belarus Soviet repression in Belarus () refers to cases of persecution of people in Belarus under Soviet rule. Number of victims According to researchers, the exact number of people who became victims of Soviet repression in Belarus is hard to determin ...
*
Kurapaty Kurapaty (, ) is a wooded area on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, where a vast number of people were executed between 1937 and 1941 during the Great Purge by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD and in particular, during the Soviet repressions i ...
*
Gulag The Gulag was a system of Labor camp, forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word ''Gulag'' originally referred only to the division of the Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies, Soviet secret police that was in charge of runnin ...
*
Virtual museum A virtual museum is a digital entity that draws on the characteristics of a museum, in order to complement, enhance, or augment the museum experience through personalization, interactivity, and richness of content. Virtual museums can perform as ...
* Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights * Museum of Soviet Occupation, Kyiv


References

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External links


Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus website

Belarusian Oral History Archive project
2014 establishments in Belarus Internet properties established in 2014 Museums established in 2014 Virtual museums History museums in Belarus World War II museums Anti-communism in Belarus Museums of communism