association ne were trying to make was, they were trying to make was clear, you want to expose something about russia s very dark past, well obviously you re a degenerate and a monster, not even a regular criminal, not even a criminal person who is just wrong, not even just a regular criminal, but a monster who must be destroyed. that local historian who ran the museum near the burial site, that was like the defacto caretaker for the burial side and spoke out against bulldozing it, it was widely understood that the allegations against him were ridiculous and completely false. but they did their job. they got, it served as pretext for locking him up. he could end up dieing in prison. he ended up dying in prison. never saw freedom again. with those guys out of the way, the russian government has taken down the memorial at the site and redesignated the whole burial site as a sightseeing location, it used to be a heritage site because of the