Moscow residents react after Russian authorities ordered the closure of the city's award-winning Gulag History Museum, dedicated to the victims of Soviet-era repression. The closure was officially put down to alleged violations of fire safety regulations, but comes amid an intense Kremlin campaign against independent civil society and those who question the state's interpretation of history.
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00:00This is a loss, a big loss, if not, God forbid, permanent, because it is necessary for this to happen,
00:29for people to see it, understand, know, because it should not be repeated, and for this, this museum exists.
00:41Why so much of this story, such a story? I think I'm generally a little bit of a Stalinist or something.
01:07Well, not quite a Stalinist, but rather somewhere there, and I think that there were a lot of allusions to our Soviet power, now a lot of fake documents, but I'm against it, I'm against it.
01:37It seems to me that the museum should be preserved, if it was created for certain people, well, someone,
02:06recently there was a commemoration day, and here there was an event, there were people, a priest, they read prayers, everything was very well organized.
02:36Thank you very much.