Memorial Society
Memorial Society is an international historical, educational, human rights, and charitable organization founded in 1989, by Andrei Sakharov and other leading Soviet dissidents to document the crimes of the Soviet Union. Its mission is to promote mature civil society and democracy based on rule of law, to assist the formation of public consciousness and the establishment of human rights in practical politics and in public life, and to promote the revelation of the truth about the historical past and perpetuate the memory of the victims of political repression under the Soviet Union.
