The memory of medical workers who died during the years of repression was honored in Tbilisi.

At the building where the Georgian Extraordinary Commission was located, those gathered read out the names of repressed medical workers.

"Caucasian Knot" wrote that in July 2023, the Georgian non-governmental organization "Institute for the Development of Freedom of Information" presented the website "Stalin's Lists," which published data on the victims of the repressions of the 1930s.

On July 30, in the center of Tbilisi, near house No. 22 on Ingorokva Street, a memorial event for the victims of Soviet terror was held. The event was organized by the Laboratory for the Study of the Soviet Past (SovLab), reports Novosti Georgia.

This building housed the Georgian Cheka, the main coordinating center for repression and mass arrests in the republic, from 1921 to 1934. SovLab holds commemorative events at this building annually, each time dedicating them to a different group of those repressed. In previous years, they remembered repressed writers, scientists, and priests, and this year's event was dedicated to doctors and medical workers.

As SovLab explained, on July 30, 1937, the NKVD issued Order No. 00447, which set the flywheel of the Great Terror in motion. Millions of Soviet citizens, including tens of thousands of Georgians, fell victim to this large-scale campaign. Representatives of all professions, from peasants and workers to intellectuals and clergy, were targeted. The purpose of such meetings is not only to preserve the memory of the victims but also to recall the scale of political terror, which in one way or another affected virtually every Georgian family, the publication states.

Participants in the event displayed photographs of medical workers arrested, sent to the Gulag, or executed during Stalin's years at the former Cheka building and read out their names, according to a video published on the Sovlab Facebook page*.

Under Stalin, mass arrests, deportations, and executions were carried out based on ethnicity, and entire nations were declared "hostile," according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "10 Myths about Stalin's Role in the Great Patriotic War." Among the residents of the North Caucasus republics, Joseph Stalin is revered by those who erroneously associate him with the concept of "social justice," which they have despaired of achieving from the current authorities, historians previously interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" noted.