Хранители Сибири: Простите нас, убитые! Трагедия спецпереселенцев поселка Палочка

Entire families disappeared into the taiga, as if they had never existed. Their graves are unmarked, there's not a single entry about them in the burial registers, they're not listed anywhere. It's as if someone was deliberately trying to erase even the memory of these people. And they almost succeeded. The fates of hundreds of thousands of so-called "special settlers" (special settlers) remain unknown. Even today, they are often officially denied recognition as victims of political repression. In the village of Palochka in the Tomsk region, local residents discovered an unmarked cemetery of "kulaks" and other "socially dangerous elements" exiled there during the Great Terror. Debates over what to do with this mass grave have divided the residents of Palochka. Watch Denis Bevz's new film, "Forgive Us, the Murdered!" The Tragedy of the Special Settlers of the Village of Palochka, from the "Guardians of Siberia" series.