Opinion: The Kremlin is trying to erase Russia’s collective memory. It won’t succeed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/22/kremlin-is-trying-erase-russias-collective-memory-it-wont-succeed/

Unlike in other post-communist countries, where atrocities committed by former regimes are being documented by government institutions — such as the Stasi Records Archive in Germany or the Institute of National Remembrance in Poland — in Russia this mammoth task was left to volunteers.