correspondent: the millions of russians murdered or imprisoned under joseph stalin are remembered hereve of the human rights group. it spent decades exposing stalin's crimes. state prosecutors want to close down the group. >> memorial is uncompromising. the past is tightly packed with the present and tightly bound to human race today. all historical events should be visible standing side-by-side. only when somebody knows all of their country's history can they be a real citizen. correspondent: hundreds of people showed their support for memorial. the group is being prosecuted under pressure's foreign agents law being used against alexei navalny. authorities say the law protects russia from foreign interference. >> is a total disgrace they are trying to liquidate us on absurd charges. this is above all a crackdown on russian civil society. correspondent: the group says it has already paid more than $80,000 in fines. supporters hope the case will be thrown out as happened in 2015 with the supreme court rejected another case brought by the justice ministry. the political climate has chang

one man's great-grandfather who was arrested and shot during the political purges of dictator joseph stalin in the 1930's. ivan and his sister say that it was only thanks to memoriale that they found out the details of their great-grandfather's death. this plaque is one of hundreds that remind muscovites of the victims of soviet political oppression. >> the project immortalized as the names without shouting about it, marking the existence of these people within the city, the country. each of these innocent people whose lives were ruined by the terrible soviet government sheen. the soviet secret police persecuted millions during the soviet era. >> memoriale's archivist puts the number at around 11 million. for decades now, memorial out -- memoriale has been working to create an archive of those shot or deported during soviet times and reporting on human rights across russia. but they are under political pressure, labeled a so-called foreign agent several years ago and now the prosecutor general's office wants them to close. human rights branch has been accused of allegedly justifying asked h

the millions of russians murdered or imprisoned under joseph stalin, remembered here in the archive of the human rights group memorial. it spent decades exposing stollins crimes. now state prosecutors want to close down the group. the kremlin prefers to focus on the soviet victory in world war 2. under stalin. losing my memorial is uncompromising. the past is tightly bound with the present and the defense of human rights to day. we think that all historical events should be visible. standing side by side only when some one knows all of their country's history can they be a real citizen without a one track mind. outside the supreme court in moscow, hundreds of people showed their support for memorial. the group is being prosecuted under russia's foreign agents law. it's been used against the network of crumbling critic, alexia valley, and media and civil society groups. the authorities say the law protects russia from foreign interference further poorly because it's a total disgrace to trying to liquid us on totally absurd invented charges. this is above all a crackdown on russian civil

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joseph stalin wanted a show trial and an execution. 10 of the defendants on october 16, 1946, would be executed the next day on october 16. the defendants were given a wide range of prison sentences and three were completely acquitted on that day. who would have imagined that a trial conducted by four nations with highly diverse judicial systems would have upheld the principles of rule of law and [ indiscernible] in recorded history. in november of 1945, the chief prosecutor for the united states adamantly foretold why the trials of nuremberg were so critical. his words predicted the conduct of the trial and importantly, the relevancy in our 21st century moment. my father revered jackson. he often quoted a sentence from justice jackson's opening remarks at the trial. let me share them with you. four great nations [indiscernible] by voluntarily submitting their enemies to the judges to the rule of law is one of the most significant tributes to power ever paid to reason. one sentence which captures the axis -- essence, the rule of law. it was about restoring the rule of law. it had been