ZGram - 12/22/2002 - "Russia Declassifies Stalin's Files"

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December 22, 2002

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Russia Declassifies Stalin's Files

By Associated Press

December 21, 2002, 11:58 AM EST

MOSCOW -- The Kremlin has turned over about 1,200 of Soviet dictator 
Josef Stalin's personal files to the Russian State Archive, an 
official said Saturday.

The declassified files touch on issues of "exceptional ideological 
and political importance," Federal Archive Service head Vladimir 
Kozlov told Echo of Moscow radio, the Interfax news agency reported.

They include Stalin's correspondence with Soviet chief of secret 
police Nikolai Yezhov, who presided over widespread purges in the 
late 1930s; Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov; and Lazar 
Kaganovich, a government minister and member of Stalin's inner circle 
who also conducted purges.

Other parts of Stalin's archive containing defense and intelligence 
secrets remain classified in accordance with Russian law, Kozlov said.

Russia's State Archive has received about 20,000 files from Soviet 
Communist Party and government archives since 1996, he said.

Russian officials have said they believe more than 20 million people 
were victims of Stalin-era purges before the dictator's death in 
1953. More than 10 million are said to have died.

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( Source: 
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-russia-archives1221dec21,0,5192441.story>http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-russia-archives1221dec21,0,5192441.story 
)