Monument to the victims of repression. 1929 - 1938. Chernogubovo village.
The peasants, to whom the revolution promised land, became perhaps the most massive class affected by repression.
Some were dispossessed and exiled in 1929-1930, some were sent to camps, and some were shot in 1937 and 1938. The monument to the repressed appeared in Chernogubovo back in 1996 through the efforts of Stanislav Lisovsky, a native of these lands. The local historian died in September 2016 at the age of 77.
Lisovsky came here and watched the monument. Now the locals take care of it: they mow the grass around, update the gravel and paint on the oak trunks. They make sure that the letters on the plates can be read. The names of the repressed are familiar to everyone here, and many of them are even relatives.
Viktor Tatur lives in the village next to Chernogubovo, but he comes from here. He helped Stanislav Lisovsky with the installation of the monument in 1996.
When Western Belarus was "under Poland", it was a little more than ten kilometers from here to the border with the bourgeois world. Many Chernogubov residents in villages that once became Polish still have relatives. Trips to relatives on the Polish side, and sometimes just denunciations of such campaigns, easily ended with a firing squad article.
— I know that my grandfather was offered to become chairman of the village council in the 30s - he refused, because he would have to sign lists of those arrested. They told him: they will come for you at night. And he knew that they would come for him, but he didn't go anywhere. I always thought, why? The answer is simple: he could have left, but the family? My grandmother was pregnant with my father — he was born after my grandfather was taken away.
Alexander Tatura's daughter told her nephew that his grandfather was wealthy in his best years.
— My aunt said that at Easter he rode three horses. He built a house so that a whole platoon of Germans lived in it during the war. These Germans built a pumping station for steam locomotives in Chernogubovo, and then Russian soldiers lived in this house and serviced it.
When Tatur was dispossessed, valuables, land, and horses were taken from him.
This is a monument to the victims of Stalin's repressions, a reminder of the crimes of the Red/Soviet authorities against the local population, the genocide of the ethnic group living in this territory in the 30s of the 20th century.