Co-chair of the “Memorial” has recognized that the basis of the NKVD many random people – Moskovskiy Komsomolets

List of personnel of the Soviet security organs have fallen off.

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an Enormous interest was caused by the data on almost 40 thousand employees of the NKVD, based on the orders of Department personnel. Interest lists were so large that the site of the Memorial, where they were published, is no longer open.

how gathered information, who is the author of the collection and that could lead to such wide concern, we talked with co-chair of the historical-educational and human rights society “memorial” Jan Rachinski.

photos: Elena Minashkina

- the interest we have felt before, as soon as enough quickly dispersed the edition of the disc with the first version of this Handbook, says Yan Signevich Raczynski. – Many were waiting for, especially those who could not buy a CD in Moscow, when we publish the data on your site. In my opinion, such a broad interest can be associated even with the known bias in the coverage of this topic, which is still preserved. Previously it was solely about the victims. But if there is a crime, there are criminals. Perhaps it is time to call a spade a spade. I think all this has fuelled interest.

- Someone may be trying to find in these lists of their relatives?

Some may be afraid of this reference to find their relatives. But in General, it is necessary to understand that the data collected on formal grounds. It’s the people who spezzani state security in this period. Most of them, and I think that the vast majority were related to repression, falsification and torture. And there are people who are not involved in this. In the lists there are the guards, doctors and veterinarians who have obtained the rank orders of the NKVD and honorary titles to employees of the Cheka – GPU. And thus got into the book. Necessary to conduct research on each person and to establish individual liability.

What is known about the author of the Handbook “the staff of bodies of state security of the USSR. 1935-1939″ Zhukov?

- Andrey Zhukov — enthusiast, lawyer by education. For many years he collected materials, extracted from different available sources. We got this material in the form of extracts. About three years we were engaged in that handle them.

You will not mend?

- While we do not feel it. Yes, and why? On the website there were no attacks. Just a lot of wishing to see these lists. Information went suddenly wide. This caused enormous interest. But, I think we have a problem with the site you decide move it to a new platform, we will make a wider channel. Now we have hour downloaded about 5 GB, which is quite a lot for this channel.