(30 Oct 2004) SHOTLIST
Moscow, 30 October 2004
1. Various of crowd at commemoration ceremony in central Moscow
2. Various of women laying red carnations at memorial
3. Wide shot of people in square
Moscow, 28 October 2004
4. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vitaly Garmash, Repression victim:
"They deprived us of sleep until we got into the state when we were completely indifferent to what we had to sign."
8. Garmash and his wife looking through photographs
9. Close up of photographs
10. Close up of Garmash
11. Close up of family photo
12. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vitaly Garmash, Repression victim:
"The case for the punishment and suspension of KGB officers from their posts, their punishment, as well as that of judges and prosecutors - this has never happened in Russia at all."
FILE: Gulag labour camp archive
13. Various of groups of workers marching in labour camp
Moscow, 15 October 2004
14. Vitaly Sigachev, Researcher on GULAG, The Memorial NGO, working at computer
15. Sigachev's colleagues at work
16. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vitaly Sigachev, Researcher on Gulag, The Memorial NGO:
"(The government) should take steps so that people understand that the current leadership does not want to repeat this. Unfortunately, we do not see any such steps on behalf of the government and legislative power."
Moscow, 30 October 2004
17. Women leaving flowers at memorial
18. Close up of women lighting candles
19. Close up of woman crying
STORYLINE
Russians have gathered in a nationwide day of remembrance to commemorate their countrymen who died in Stalin's labour camps.
Authorities say more than 20 (m) million people suffered in purges under Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.
More than 10 (m) million of them died before Stalin's death in 1953.
In Moscow, survivors and relatives laid flowers at a stone taken from one of the first Soviet labour camps.
People lit candles and held pictures of loved ones at the sombre ceremony held across the street from the country's former KGB headquarters.
The Main Directorate for Corrective Labour Camps, also known as Gulag, ran camps in remote regions of Siberia and Russia's far north.
Vitaly Garmash was arrested in 1951 for associating with foreigners and sentenced to five years hard labour in Kazakhstan.
"They deprived us of sleep until we got into the state when we were completely indifferent to what we had to sign", he said.
After Stalin's death Garmash and thousands of other prisoners were released from the camps and rehabilitated. But their jailers were never punished.
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a wreath to today's ceremony but has sought to play down the controversies of history and play up the role of the security services.
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