​Victory Memorial ('Memorial Pobedy') Museum has opened the new No Statute of Limitations exhibition on February 8. It is a unique collection of archival documents about the tragedy of civilians during the Great Patriotic War and the crimes of the Nazis in the occupied territory.

The documents presented were declassified and published within the framework of the All-Russian project of the same name, which Russian scouts have been engaged in for 2 years already. They found about 7,000 documents from 80 different archives across the country. Most of the materials were included in 23 volumes of the serial edition «No Statute of Limitations».

In December of the last year, the project was recognized as the best scientific project of the Year of Memory and Glory and was given the Victory National Award – a prize for achievements in preserving the historical memory of the events and participants in the Great Patriotic War.

«The tragedy for the civilian population was, indeed, colossal and large-scale, but, unfortunately, in our country, little to no attention is usually paid to this topic, – says Boris Bodikov, chairman of the Krasnoyarsk Regional branch of the Scouting Movement of Russia. – In addition, very few young people now know about what exactly the generation of victors protected us from, so the project is undoubtedly very important.» pic The No Statute of Limitations exhibition opened not only in Krasnoyarsk, as the project covered 22 regions of the country. The opening day is special, too – it was on February 8, 1946 that the Soviet accusation part at the Nuremberg trial began. The "Judgment of the Peoples", as the famous tribunal was called, condemned the Nazi regime and its main representatives.

The archives presented at the exhibition fully reflect the inhumane policy of the genocide of the Soviet people: raids, mass destruction of civilians, exhausting, forced labor and the deportation of civilians to Germany.

During the war the territory of the Krasnoyarsk Region was not occupied, but 28 years ago the first public organization of former captives was created in the city. Last year, the museum's specialists presented a series of educational lectures "No Right for Protection", telling about the system of fascist concentration camps and the survival of war prisoners. All lectures are available for viewing on the museum's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5uSx1bx092YtuE-BChhbGg.