More Than Thousand Belarusians Demand To Declassify KGB Archives

The campaign to open access to classified data is gaining momentum.

The petition demanding to open access to KGB archives has collected more than 1,000 signatures, the historian and public activist Dzmitry Drozd informs on Facebook.

"We did it together! There are 1000 signatures under the petition on opening KGB archives and putting the propaganda of Stalinism under a ban. Moving right along! Join us!" – the historian wrote.

The launch of the campaign was announced in the resolution of the forum "Bolshevik Terror. Our Right To Establish The Truth," which was held in Minsk on August 22.

It was decided to include 7 points relating to the theme of Bolshevik repression into the text of the resolution. The demands were as follows: to transfer all the archival and investigative cases against those who were repressed in the 1920s and 1970s from departmental to open state archives, to ensure free access to all the documents that have been in storage for more than 75 years, which are not subject to limitations as personal privacy according to the Belarusian legislation.

You can sign the petition here.