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The Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus ( be, Віртуальны музей савецкіх рэпрэсій у Беларусі) is a non-commercial project of
The content of the exhibition consists of recordings of audio- and video-recollections, photographs, documents, and statistics connected with repression in Belarus. Also, a chronicle of the repression in Belarus and some historical articles are included.
, the museum includes seven showrooms:
* Soviet myths
* Chronology of repression
* Victims of repression
* The system of repression
* Anti-Soviet resistance
* Rehabilitation
* Commemorative culture
Among the museum's special features are, besides the narrative interviews, inter alia interactive maps of the 
Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus website
Belarusian Oral History Archive project
2014 establishments in Belarus Internet properties established in 2014 Museums established in 2014 Virtual museums History museums in Belarus World War II museums Anti-communism in Belarus Museums of communism
oral history
Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people wh ...
from historians and other scientists from Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by ...
. Created as a virtual museum
A virtual museum is a digital entity that draws on the characteristics of a museum, in order to complement, enhance, or augment the museum experience through personalization, interactivity, and richness of content. Virtual museums can perform as t ...
, it covers Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
repression in Belarus.
Background
In 2007, theBelarusian Christian Democracy
The Belarusian Christian Democracy ( be, Беларуская хрысьціянская дэмакратыя, Bielaruskaja chryścijanskaja demakratyja; russian: Белорусская христианская демократия, Belorusskaya ...
party launched a campaign called "Repentance". The campaign began meeting with former prisoners of camps, record their memories, and collect materials on the subject of repression.
In 2012, an independent civic initiative was formed, which began to create a Virtual museum of Soviet repression in Belarus. The basis for the museum was materials collected during the campaign "Repentance".
In 2014, a website for the virtual museum was created. The museum is only available online; there is currently as of 2020 no physical exhibition of the material.
Concept of the museum
Themuseum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make th ...
operates with an approach of oral history
Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people wh ...
by presenting recordings of inhabitants of Belarus who report on their personal experiences with Repression during the Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
time. The museum covers a part of Belarusian history that is mainly excluded from current Belarusian official historiography.
The content of the exhibition consists of recordings of audio- and video-recollections, photographs, documents, and statistics connected with repression in Belarus. Also, a chronicle of the repression in Belarus and some historical articles are included.
, the museum includes seven showrooms:
* Soviet myths
* Chronology of repression
* Victims of repression
* The system of repression
* Anti-Soviet resistance
* Rehabilitation
* Commemorative culture
Among the museum's special features are, besides the narrative interviews, inter alia interactive maps of the NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union.
...
in Belarus, and memorials on repression.
In addition the museum offers a victim-search option with more than 30.000 records.
Partners
Among the partners of this project areKonrad Adenauer Foundation
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation (german: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, KAS) is a German political party foundation associated with but independent of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The foundation's headquarters are located in Sank ...
and the Belarusian Oral History Archive project.
See also
*Soviet repressions in Belarus
Soviet repression in Belarus ( be, Савецкія рэпрэсіі ў Беларусі) refers to cases of persecution of people in Belarus under Soviet rule.
Number of victims
According to researchers, the exact number of people who became v ...
* Kurapaty
Kurapaty ( be, Курапаты, ) is a wooded area on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, in which a vast number of people were executed between 1937 and 1941 during the Great Purge by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD.
The exact count of victi ...
* Gulag
The Gulag, an acronym for , , "chief administration of the camps". The original name given to the system of camps controlled by the State Political Directorate, GPU was the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps (, )., name=, group= ...
* Virtual museum
A virtual museum is a digital entity that draws on the characteristics of a museum, in order to complement, enhance, or augment the museum experience through personalization, interactivity, and richness of content. Virtual museums can perform as t ...
* Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights
The Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights ( lt, Okupacijų ir laisvės kovų muziejus) in Vilnius, Lithuania, was established in 1992 by order of the Minister of Culture and Education and the president of the Lithuanian Union of Political ...
* Museum of Soviet Occupation, Kyiv
The Museum of Soviet occupation ( ua, Музей радянської окупації, ''Muzei radianskoi okupatsii'') in Kyiv, Ukraine, is devoted to portraying the crimes of the Soviet regime in Ukraine from 1917 to 1991. It was establishe ...
References
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Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus website
Belarusian Oral History Archive project
2014 establishments in Belarus Internet properties established in 2014 Museums established in 2014 Virtual museums History museums in Belarus World War II museums Anti-communism in Belarus Museums of communism