Ata-Beyit is the first memorial complex in the post-Soviet space dedicated to the victims of Stalinist repressions. This is a place where in 1937-1938 those killed in the dungeons of the NKVD were secretly taken out and buried.
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Ata-Beyit is the first memorial complex in the post-Soviet space dedicated to the victims of Stalinist repressions. This is a place where in 1937-1938 those killed in the dungeons of the NKVD were secretly taken out and buried.
Today it consists of 6 separate thematic complexes, 2 museums and 2 bas-reliefs. The speaker will try to show the interests of different groups, including the official ones, who designed this memorial. As well as the contradictions that are embedded in it.