{"id":66419,"date":"2021-03-06T07:44:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T07:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=170555"},"modified":"2021-03-06T07:44:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T07:44:33","slug":"his-great-grandfather-was-executed-by-stalins-secret-police-now-hes-being-sued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/06\/his-great-grandfather-was-executed-by-stalins-secret-police-now-hes-being-sued\/","title":{"rendered":"His Great-Grandfather Was Executed By Stalin’s Secret Police. Now He’s Being Sued."},"content":{"rendered":"
MOSCOW — Denis Karagodin has spent almost a decade compiling a meticulous record of evidence about the murder of his great-grandfather by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s secret police, running a website that lists, by name, every individual he deems complicit.<\/p>\n
The Siberia-based designer has been tipped for prestigious human rights prizes, and leading Western publications have spotlighted his work and the website he runs.<\/a><\/p>\n The people he ties to the killing of Stepan Karagodin, a peasant swept up in Stalin’s Great Terror in the 1930s, have passed away. But their relatives are now making sure Karagodin’s accusations don’t go unchallenged.<\/p>\n Karagodin was interrogated this week by police in Tomsk, the city where he lives and where his great-grandfather’s murder took place on January 21, 1938. “Buckle your seatbelts, dear friends!” he wrote on Facebook<\/a> after his questioning. “They’ve filed a police complaint against me.”<\/p>\n Sergei Mityushov, the son of a deceased local employee of the NKVD secret police force that dispatched millions of Soviet citizens to frigid labor camps and the firing squad, confirmed that he had pressed charges against the amateur researcher for publishing what he says is inaccurate and defamatory information about his father, Aleksei Alekseyevich Mityushov.<\/p>\n