In the Yusupov garden celebrated the 30 anniversary of St. Petersburg "Memorial".
the performer of the author's song and the radio host Boltyanskaya Natella and also "the free microphone" at which anyone could act worked.
Those who came in the evening on June 14 to the Yusupov garden freely accommodated on steps of the front staircase of the palace. People there were about one hundred, it is no more. And 30 years ago so many citizens came that the garden could hardly accomodate all. Then, on June 14, 1988, in Saint Petersburg the first mass meeting of memory of the victims of political repressions took place.
Kak is reminded by one of cofounders of St. Petersburg "Memorial" and the editor-in-chief of the website Kogita.ru Kosinova Tatyana, the application for that meeting was submitted by the youth consolidation "Outpost" which was directed by Razorenov Aleksey.
— This informal consolidation arose at the boundary of 1979−1980 — Kosinova Tatyana. — Originally it was called "The communistic union of fight against crime". Consolidation existed at October RK All-Union Leninist Young Communist League Saint Petersburg which supervised "the difficult contingent" of teenagers, fought crime and drug addiction among young people. Leaders of the Leningrad Komsomol Potekhin Alexander (at the governor Yakovlev Vladimir was the vice governor Saint Petersburg, and information agency "ITAR-TASS") and Pilatov Sergei (at that time the manager of the sector of amateur associations of All-Union Leninist Young Communist League Group nowadays heads the St. Petersburg office). Conducted the meeting Zelinskaya Helena and Talalay Mikhail.
— to Me as much years, how many to "Memorial" — the employee Fonda of Ioffe and the activist of group of the help to the detained anarchists and anti-fascists in the matter of "Network" wrote yesterday on the page to social networks Kulakova Eugenie. — It is somehow strange to think that we are age-mates. I look at photos from the first "memorialsky" meeting in Saint Petersburg in the Yusupov garden — exactly 30 years ago, on June 14, 1988 — I peer at faces of hundreds of comers, I try to understand, they are frightened or inspired, or are resolute? What in these persons and what they wait for? Whether they could, these people 30 years ago, to provide that "Memorial" in the year after all will be registered, and in 25 years recognize by the foreign agent, and we will celebrate the 30 anniversary of this meeting that day when business of "memorialets" Dmitriev Youri is considered in court again (yesterday Supreme Court of the Republic of Karelia cancelled the verdict of not guilty Dmitriev Youri. — of the Comment of the bus ), and "memorialets" Titiev Oyub is many months behind bars. Titiev Oyub, by the way, it will be possible to sign the card today.
V The Yusupov garden Flige Irina, the director of the St. Petersburg Research Center Memorial, Yuly Rybakov, the human rights activist, the dissident, the former political prisoner, the artist and the ex-deputy State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Verblovskaya Irina, the guide, the expert Saint Petersburg and also the former political prisoner acted. In 1956 she was sentenced to 5 years for the fact that in its apartment the Hungarian events and input to Budapest the Soviet tanks were discussed. Later vessels Verblovskaya Irina were sent to the only camp in the USSR for political prisoners of women located to Kemerovo Region.
All of them told bitter words about present country situation yesterday. Verblovskaya Irina and told about the events: "This our fiasco". According to her, "the intimidated generations in the country already a little, it is necessary to overcome fear, we will overcome — there will be other life". Verblovskaya Irina noted that she knows what says: "I passed through GULAG, having given it several years of youth, I know what is repressions".