Select language:
Home > News & Events > Latest News
Latest News
STALIN MUSEUM IN GORI MUST BE REPLACED WITH MUSEUM OF COMMUNIST CRIMES
22.07.2010
Stalin statue in Gori, Georgia is gone. That was a good news. The remaining question is what to do with the Stalin museum in Gori. One possibility is just to dismantle it. This is nevertheless not the best solution. More effective would be to make this museum part of new museum of worldwide communist crimes. Such of proposal was just supported by the participants of recent Boell conference on Stalinist crimes in Tbilisi and presented to president Mikhail Saakashvili.
By Mart Laar the first part of museum must describe the crimes of communism is different places in the world, describing how 100 million people were killed under communist regimes. Modern technology can be used in museum, which allows also to build a data-bank of communist crimes. It is important namely not only create a museum, but also a research and study center. Such of museum would not need large storages or collection, most important is to present history via modern facilities. The second part of the museum constitutes current museum of Stalin, which demonstrates in its absurd way elegantly what totalitarianism really is. The third part of museum is dedicated to the crimes of communism in the Caucasus countries, specially in Georgia.
To make this dream reality large international cooperation is demanded. There exists soon several museums, collections and foundations in the World dedicated to the questions of communists crimes. All of them must be invited and called to cooperation. Main task lies of-course on Georgian authorities, who will carry the main burden of the project but can create at the same time something absolutely extraordinary. „This is of course a big dream, but without dreams nothing big is created", said Mart Laar. „With such museum we can create the monument to all these nameless victims of communism, lying in the graves without crosses around the World".