{"id":12075,"date":"2016-12-16T21:31:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T14:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stepanivanovichkaragodin.org\/?p=12075"},"modified":"2019-01-27T06:57:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T23:57:10","slug":"delovaya-gazeta-the-wall-street-journal-o-stepanivanovichkaragodin-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karagodin.org\/?p=12075","title":{"rendered":"\u0421\u0435\u0432\u0435\u0440\u043e\u0430\u043c\u0435\u0440\u0438\u043a\u0430\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0434\u0435\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0430\u044f \u0433\u0430\u0437\u0435\u0442\u0430 «The Wall Street Journal» \u043e KARAGODIN.ORG"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Russian Fights for Stalin\u2019s Victims.\u00a0<\/strong>Nearly 80 years ago, Joseph Stalin\u2019s secret police shot the great-grandfather of Denis Karagodin. Now he has shaken Russia with a landmark investigation. <...>\"They buried him here and thought the story was over,\" says Mr. Karagodin, a fast-talking 34-year-old who shares the intense eyes that stare out from photographs of his great-grandfather. Stepan was a victim of the Soviet dictator's Great Terror against so-called enemies of the people. He had been charged with spying for Japan, but in 1955, after Stalin's death, Stepan's name was cleared. \"With that, they thought that the matter was settled,\" said Mr. Karagodin. \"I wanted to show that it wasn't.\"<...> \u2013 Friday, 16 December 2016, 14:00 GMT, The Wall Street Journal \u2013 http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-russian-fights-for-stalins-victims-1481896844<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Nearly 80 years ago, Joseph Stalin\u2019s secret police shot the great-grandfather of Denis Karagodin. Now he has shaken Russia with a landmark investigation<\/em><\/p>\n

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Denis Karagodin<\/a> holds up a copy of the order to execute<\/a> his great-grandfather<\/a> near the ravine in Tomsk<\/a>, Russia, where the body is buried.<\/p><\/div>\n

Denis Karagodin<\/strong><\/a> is unearthing some uncomfortable truths buried for decades in a trash-strewn ravine on the outskirts of the Siberian town of Tomsk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Nearly 80 years ago, Joseph Stalin\u2019s secret police shot his great-grandfather Stepan and dumped the body here. Now Mr. Karagodin has shaken Russia with a landmark investigation that he says has unmasked all those involved in the killing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey buried him here and thought the story was over,\u201d says Mr. Karagodin, a fast- talking 34-year-old who shares the intense eyes that stare out from photographs of his great-grandfather. Stepan was a victim of the Soviet dictator\u2019s Great Terror against so- called enemies of the people. He had been charged with spying for Japan, but in 1955, after Stalin\u2019s death, Stepan\u2019s name was cleared. \u201cWith that, they thought that the matter was settled,\u201d said Mr. Karagodin. \u201cI wanted to show that it wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He spent five years tracking down documents in the archives of the security service and other state agencies. His research allowed him to piece together a chain of orders that incriminate, he says, some 30 people, from Stalin right down to the three alleged executioners.<\/p>\n

The investigation broke new ground in Russia, where the state\u2014led for 17 years by the ex-KGB colonel Vladimir Putin\u2014largely glosses over the crimes of the Stalin era. The Kremlin venerates the Soviet Union\u2019s victory in World War II and the industrialization that took place under Stalin; it largely ignores the many millions who were killed or exiled for ideological reasons during his reign.<\/p>\n

The Russian public has moved closer to the Kremlin\u2019s approach. An August 2007 poll by the independent research organization Levada-Center found that just 9% of Russians saw Stalin\u2019s repressions as a political necessity that was historically justified; a poll this past March found that 26% now share this view. Nine years ago, 72% called the repressions a political crime; in this year\u2019s poll, only 45% did.<\/p>\n

For years, individuals have been able to gain access to the case files of persecuted family members. But historians say that Mr. Karagodin\u2019s efforts, chronicled on his blog, are unusual in their diligence and detail\u2014and in his determination to expose the perpetrators. Days after Mr. Karagodin completed his investigation, the history and human-rights group Memorial published an online database of around 40,000 officials of the NKVD (the Soviet secret police) who served during the late 1930s.<\/p>\n

The two events sparked debates in newspapers, online and on political talk shows. Should Russians look for the perpetrators of decades-old crimes? Would it lead to reconciliation or a new split in society?<\/p>\n

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on Memorial\u2019s database. \u201cThe issue is very sensitive,\u201d he told reporters in late November. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that opinions differ; there are diametrically opposed views. Both sides make good arguments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Karagodin\u2019s family knew nothing of Stepan\u2019s fate until 1955, when an investigator came to ask questions as authorities revisited the case; he told them, incorrectly, that Stepan had died while in prison.<\/p>\n

In spring 2012, Mr. Karagodin found an old notebook where his father had scribbled down information about the case. Days later, he walked into the Tomsk office of the FSB (the successor of the NKVD and KGB) and told the officer on duty, \u201cThere\u2019s been a murder.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He was allowed to see the case files, but he soon realized that there were huge gaps. He turned to the FSB official seated next to him: \u201cWhere\u2019s the body? Have the people who killed him been brought to account?\u201d he recalled asking. \u201cThey were shocked,\u201d he says. \u201cI asked logical and simple questions that they aren\u2019t used to hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Denis sent requests to archives across the country. The more obstacles officials threw in his way\u2014\u201cThere is no information\u201d was a typical response\u2014the more his resolve stiffened to uncover everyone involved.<\/p>\n

Each document led to another order, another list, another photograph, slowly revealing a chain that started with Stalin himself. The Soviet dictator signed a decree in 1937 calling for the arrest and execution of \u201canti-Soviet elements.\u201d Orders from his NKVD chief, Nikolai Yezhov, followed, including one listing the numbers to be shot or sent to the Gulag in each region.<\/p>\n

Stepan Karagodin, born in 1881 in a village 200 miles south of Moscow, was an obvious target. He had been exiled to a village north of Tomsk, in central Russia, in 1928 during a campaign against kulaks, or wealthy peasants. The NKVD arrested him on Dec. 1, 1937; he confessed to being a Japanese spy two days later and was executed on Jan. 21, 1938. Documents uncovered by Denis indicate that the confession was false and had been obtained by torture; Stepan was later cleared.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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million people were executed for political crimes under Stalin, while millions more were sent to the Gulag or were deported, according to Nikita Petrov, a historian at Memorial.<\/p>\n

Piece by piece, Mr. Karagodin built his case, tracing prosecutors, security agents and even drivers of the black cars that transported the arrested. On Nov. 12, he received the final link in the chain: a copy of the execution order and a signed note from three executioners confirming to superiors that it had been carried out. \u201cWe got them all!\u201d he declared on his blog.<\/p>\n

Critics of Mr. Karagodin and Memorial say that pointing fingers over the past revives old enmities and creates fissures in society. In a debate on state television last month, the<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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chief editor of Komsomolskaya Pravda, a leading pro-Kremlin tabloid, said that people should concentrate on problems in the present. \u201cLet\u2019s not dig into it. They\u2019re all dead,\u201d said the editor, Vladimir Sungorkin.<\/p>\n

But Mr. Karagodin\u2019s supporters say that Russia needs to talk about its past to allow reconciliation and prevent a repeat of this grim history. \u201cNothing splits society more than silence on the topics of suffering and repression of our own people,\u201d said Mr. Petrov from Memorial. \u201cWe need understanding of good and evil and not an illusion that all is well in society.\u201d<\/p>\n

A week after completing his investigation, Mr. Karagodin received an email from the granddaughter of one of the executioners; she had found out about her grandfather\u2019s role from the blog. \u201cI haven\u2019t slept for several nights,\u201d wrote the granddaughter, whom Mr. Karagodin named only as Yulia. \u201cMentally, I understand that I\u2019m not responsible for what happened, but I can\u2019t put my feelings into words.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of her own great-grandfathers had been arrested and was never seen again. \u201cSo now it turns out that there are victims and executioners in one family,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

Mr. Karagodin wrote back offering reconciliation: \u201cYou won\u2019t find in me an enemy or an assailant, just a person who wants to put an end once and for all to this endless Russian bloodbath.\u201d<\/p>\n

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