By Victor Duda
Zhdanov repressed and killed thousands of people. Now Stalin's "Right Hand" Museum in the occupied city will become "preserving historical memory", a official is sure. "It is the long-awaited and, of course, one of the significant events in the year of the defender of the Fatherland and the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory. The exposition of the museum is the great joint work of scientists, local historians, historians of St. Petersburg and Mariupol," Piotivsky wrote.
The exposition of the museum was prepared by local scientists and historians from St. Petersburg and Mariupol. The exposition pays attention to the various historical periods of Russia: the revolution, the Second World War and the postwar time. Andriy Zhdanov was born in Mariupol in 1896, from 1948 to 1989 the city was called in his honor. Zhdanov was an active participant in Stalin's repression and signed 176 "shooting lists".
He is responsible for the death of thousands of people in different regions of the USSR. After the war, Zhdanov began to suppress the creative intelligentsia. In particular, the writers of poets Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Mikhail Kuzmina, Andrew Bely, Zinaida Hippius and Fyodor Sologub were called "representatives of reactionary dream and renegade.
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