11/6 Sandarmokh the Russian Military History Society/ Putin issued a decree in 2012 reviving it with a stated mission to “promote the study of Russian military history and counteract attempts to distort it,” as well as to “raise the prestige of military service, and education of patriotism.”
"No one is likely to dig that deep there in the winter. So according to them, the executions were in the summer; but then why were these people wearing overcoats and felt boots? In addition, the poses and the depth at which the bodies were found were typical for Sandarmokh victims.
Petropavlovsk State University. However,they speculated that their remains would be found near Medvezhegorsk, where a POW camp was located,some12km away from Sandarmokh/But intheend,the authorities pushedPetropavlovskUniversity aside & the Russian Military-Historical Society took over the matter/
Sandarmokh was originally identified&studied in1997 by prominent historian Yury Dmitriyev, who heads the Karelia branch of the Memorial/ The hypothesis that the bodies of executed Soviet prisoners of war could be in the area was first put forward by Yury Kilin & Sergei Verigin, historians at(
9/4 Sandarmokh /Locals “suspect the Military-Historical Society's real intention is to rewrite the history of the site to cover up Stalin's crimes against his own people and to turn the location into another shrine to the achievements and sufferings of the Soviet Union during World War II.”/