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The new Museum of Memory will focus on Nazi war crimes and Soviet genocide, replacing the Gulag History Museum after its 2024 closure amid disputed safety violation claims.
- In Moscow, the Gulag History Museum will be replaced by the Museum of Memory focused on Nazi war crimes and the 'genocide of the Soviet people' more than a year after its closure over safety allegations.
- Moscow authorities cited alleged safety breaches, but a Moscow official said Kremlin and the FSB security service drove the closure despite inspections finding no violations, and Kyiv and Western allies rejected this.
- Founded in 2001, the Gulag History Museum presented the Soviet forced-labour network with artifacts from across Russia, and its long-time director was replaced months after the closure.
- The change alters Russia's public framing of World War II and repression by replacing a Gulag-focused museum, aligning with President Vladimir Putin's wartime rhetoric amid around 27 million Soviet citizens' deaths.
- Russian news agencies reported the appointment of Natalia Kalashnikova, director of the Smolensk Fortress museum, to lead the Museum of Memory, which is slated to open later this year and aims to cultivate a strong rejection of Nazism.
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Russia plans to transform the Gulag History Museum in Moscow into a museum showcasing Nazi crimes committed against the Soviet Union during World War II. Authorities closed the museum in November 2024 over alleged fire safety violations. Critics say it is an attempt to erase the memory of the violence in the former country.
Under Vladimir Putin, the reckoning with Stalin's reign of terror is no longer desired. Now the Gulag Museum in Moscow is disappearing. Instead, an exhibition will be dedicated to Nazi crimes during the Second World War.
The Moscow Museum of the Gulag – the infamous penal and labor camps of the Soviet Union – is to be replaced by an exhibition on Nazi war crimes, according to authorities. "The new museum will feature an exhibition covering all phases of Nazi war crimes in the Great Patriotic War," the Moscow city administration announced on Friday, using the official Russian term for World War II. This is the latest measure in a crackdown on institutions that do…
The Museum of the History of the Gulag, the Soviet system of concentration camps, will be permanently closed in Moscow and replaced by a museum dedicated to the memory of Nazi crimes, the city hall of the Russian capital announced on Friday, AFP and EFE agencies report. The new...
Under Putin, Russia largely ceased its efforts to come to terms with Stalin's reign of terror. Now, the Gulag Museum in Moscow is undergoing a transformation. From now on, the institution will focus on Germany's war crimes during the Second World War.
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