35 Years Ago, Lubianca Was Placed on the Solovec Stone, and the Temporary Monument Became a Symbol of the Continuity of Repression — the King's, the Soviet's, and the Putin's Difficult Story of the Monument Is Told by Alexey Uvarov.

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On October 30, 1990, the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow hosted the opening ceremony of the Solovetsk Stone. Thanks to the efforts of dissidents, the Valun were able to bring to the capital from Solovkov, as a witness to the suffering, hunger and torture of many Soviet citizens who had been victims of repression and had passed through GULAG. 35 years ago, many hoped that the monument on Lubian Square would be a warning — and a symbol of memory of t…