That the Parliament acknowledges the 30th anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union; is aware that 26 December 1991 marked the end of the USSR’s 69-year-old existence as a sovereign state; remembers the reported 20 million Soviet citizens that are estimated to have been put to death by the regime or who died through repression, epidemics and famines that were a direct result of Bolshevik policies, from what it considers the crushing and reported massacre of participants in the Kronstadt sailors revolt, and the reported imposition of the Holodomar on Ukraine and ethnic Ukrainian areas of Russia, to the estimated 1.6 million people who it understands died during forced population transfers of "Kulaks" and other, it considers, often imagined, enemies of the regime, as well as 681,692 people who were reportedly executed between 1937 and 1938 alone; understands that a minimum of 2.7 million people died in Soviet Gulags, labour colonies and special settlements; recalls the Nazi-Soviet Pact, which it considers enabled Hitler to invade Poland, and the oppression of Eastern European nations annexed as a result of that deal, including, it understands, mass executions and deportations followed by the forced exile to Siberia and inhospitable parts of Central Asia of entire, often non-Christian, non-Slavic, minorities in the Soviet Union, such as the Chechens, Crimean Tartars and Kalmyks, with, it further understands, colossal loss of life, cultural obliteration and psychological trauma; recalls the reported antisemitic "Doctors Plot", the crushing of the 1953 East German Workers revolt, 1956 Hungarian Revolution, 1968 Prague Spring, the arrest and incarceration in psychiatric hospitals of free-thinkers and "refuseniks", who sought to emigrate to Israel, and the December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, which, it understands, ultimately brought about the collapse of the politically and economically bankrupt Soviet system; notes with concern reports that, in the two decades since taking power in the Russian Federation, President Vladimir Putin has steadily rolled back many civil rights and freedoms gained following the dissolution of the Soviet Union; regrets that Russian prosecutors have reportedly moved to liquidate the archive and human rights centre of Memorial International, Russia’s most prominent human rights organisation, which it understands dedicates its work to preserving the memory of all those imprisoned in Gulags between 1929 and the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953; understands that Memorial International, which continues to advocate for human rights in contemporary Russia, is being accused of “justifying terrorist activities” for its inclusion of members of imprisoned religious groups on its list of political prisoners, and considers this to be an attempt to control and sanitise the historical narrative by rewriting the memory of what it sees as one of the most painful times in Russia’s history.