Kulturminnene fra GULag-arkipelet mellom glemsel og erindring – på leting etter Gulag-museene i dagens Russland

Even though the terror régimes in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia both resulted in many millions of victims, the commemorisation of these events are vastly different. There are plenty of memorials on the sites of German concentration camps, and new ones are continually added. In Russia, however, there are but few scattered memorials and only two Gulag sites – in Solovki and in Perm – with small museums that show conditions in the camps, while there are no national monuments nor a national museum on the subject. Almost all memorialisation projects, such as local collections and exhibitions, have been initiated by the Memorial Society or private individuals. Despite considerable difficulties, some projects are nevertheless being worked out, including the Gulag Museum in the Siberian city of Norilsk.