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In Belarus and Russia, the attitude of both the authorities and the public toward the Soviet past and Soviet history has mostly been a complicated one. This array of issues definitely incorporates the history of Stalinism in all its dimensions and ramifications. Presently, the objective analysis of the historical experience of the Stalin period of the Soviet history is becoming, afresh, a matter of common civic significance. It has become the primary objective of national historiographies to “develop new national histories” and alter the paradigms created in the Soviet years.