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Many Teflisians who know the history of their city can not avoid feel a slight chill when they pbad in front of an old building located in the central Pavle Ingorokva street, which currently houses about 40 families and whose dark past freezes the blood.
And it's that number 22 of Pavle Ingorokva was for more than a decade a center of torture and execution at the time of the Bolshevik dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, a Georgian who punished his own people with fierce harshness.
In those fateful years, the street was called Felix Dzerzhinsky, in honor of the founder of Cheká, the political police of the Soviet regime.
Joseph Stalin (left) beside Nikolai Bukharin, November 21, 1930 (AP).
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The location of the property could not be more appropriate to accommodate the House of Terror " as the Georgians came to call it open much later, when the Soviet Union was no longer supported by its foundations.
In the building, which once inspired terror and the pbaders-by tried to avoid, dozens of people are now living, some of whom do not know or do not try not to think about the atrocities that were committed inside and in the 20s and 30s of the last century.
"We try not to think about what these walls have seen. We live in the present, "says Marina, who has rented an apartment with her husband and two children for the past five years at the 22nd Pavle Ingorokva, and who prefers not to delve into a subject that, though tragic, has pbaded
"We try not to think about what these walls have seen, we live in the present," says Marina, who has been renting an apartment for five years at the 22nd Pavle Ingorokva with her husband and two children (EFE).
On the first floor of the "House of Terror", children's voices are heard and toys are scattered on the floor.
Ofelia Arutyunyan ("Ofelia bebo", the grandmother Ofelia, in Georgian, as the whole world calls) is the oldest tenant of the building.
"I had a big family and now I'm alone," says the 82-year-old woman.
Ofelia remembers that He moved into the building in 1954, shortly after his wedding.
Stalin and his daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva (EFE).
"He was 18. We came here to live with a husband, we were married," he says.
The authorities had badigned the apartment to her husband's family and, at that time, it was more than reckless to refuse housing offered by the state.
"We did not talk about what had happened in the building, it was a taboo subject, even though Stalin was already dead," Ofelia said.
The tenants of the "House of Terror" are trying to live their lives as usual. Politicians and experts believe that it is necessary to give the property a special status.
"This building must become a symbol of terror and repression during the USSR"said Georgian MP Elena Joshtaria, who has already sent the corresponding application to the Tbilisi City Council.
An electronic copy of a Katyn document, published by the Federal Archives Agency of Russia and certifying the mbadacre of Katyn, where between 1940 and 1941 more than 20,000 Poles were killed by order of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin (EFE).
According to Joshtaria, between 1921 and 1953, year of Stalin's death,In Georgia, about 20,000 people were executed, and the place where the fate of many victims was decided "must become a symbol of Tbilisi, sad and tragic, but a symbol".
Located in the heart of the city, the "House of Terror", cbuilt in the late 19th century, is an "untouchable" property, remember the authorities.
"The house is located in the historic center of Tbilisi and it can not be destroyed", said a spokesman for the city council.
With regard to the possible creation of a museum, the authorities do not have the necessary resources to implement this initiative, he admitted.
The entrance and the ground floor of the House of Terror in Tbilisi.
In addition, the spokesman said that "many of its residents will not want to move elsewhere and leave the city center.
For all these reasons, the municipal council will be limited to "renovate the facade and communications" of the property.
Stalinist repression in Georgia is one of the subjects of investigation of the Soviet Past Study Laboratory, an NGO founded by the historian Irakli Jvadaguiani.
In the time of Stalin, the House of Terror was located on Felix Dzerzhinsky Street (photo), in honor of the founder of Cheká, the formidable political police of the Soviet regime.
"The building in Ingorokva Street is one of the main places that best embodies all the bitterness of that time," said Jvadaguiani.
According to him, the building really needs to receive "more attention from the authorities" and even if it does not become a museum, "we have to make sure that the Georgians know more on the black pages of his story"
From the fall of the Soviet Union, the street where was found the "House of Terror" was named after Pavle Ingorokva, an iron foe of the Sovietization of Georgia.
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