Lived in this Moscow house for over a year without knowing anything about people who were arrested there and shot during the 1930s purges. Now folks at https://t.co/32dyZNS2I1 have commemorated these victims - mostly ethnic Hungarians and Germans accused of espionage. pic.twitter.com/IiNyALTdVG— Maria Antonova (@mashant) July 17, 2018
WNU Editor: My father's best friend lost his parents during this time. They lived a few blocks away from the Kremlin and his father was an important official in the government, and as such he lived in a nice top floor apartment. He was a young boy when the NKVD came knocking at the door one morning to arrest his parents. He had opened the door and all that he remembers is seeing a half a dozen stern looking men dressed like Gestapo types showing him a badge and then walking right by him. His last memory of his mother was to be embraced by her .... an embrace that knew then that this was the last time that he was going to see her. They left him there alone, and he stayed in that apartment for the entire day until his uncle came that evening to pick him up. He never saw his parents after that, and it was only when he himself was a top official in the Soviet government 45 years later that he knew what happened to his parents, who gave the order, and how they were executed. Today .... that apartment is my condo and home in Moscow. For those who know Russian, the website that commemorates these victims is here.
