太田述正コラム#14470（2024.9.19）
＜映画評論131：親愛なる同志達へ（その１）＞（2024.12.14公開）

　その間に、私は、何本もAmazon Primeで映画を見ているのですが、便宜上、昨日見たばかりの「2020年のロシアの歴史ドラマ映画＜で、＞アンドレイ・コンチャロフスキー監督・脚本・製作によるノヴォチェルカッスク虐殺を描いた作品であ＜って、＞・・・第77回ヴェネツィア国際映画祭のコンペティション部門でプレミア上映され、審査員特別賞を受賞した・・・『親愛なる同志たちへ』（[Dear Comrades]）」
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A6%AA%E6%84%9B%E3%81%AA%E3%82%8B%E5%90%8C%E5%BF%97%E3%81%9F%E3%81%A1%E3%81%B8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Comrades!　（[]内）
を、ロシア・シリーズの先鞭を切って、先にご紹介したいと思います。
　ノヴォチェルカッスク虐殺（Novocherkassk massacre）とは、’a massacre carried out by the Soviet army and KGB against unarmed civilians who were rallying on 2 June 1962 in the Soviet city of Novocherkassk＜であり、a＞ few weeks prior to the massacre, workers at the Electro Locomotive Novocherkassk plant (NEVZ) had organized a peaceful labor strike. The security forces killed 26 people, according to the official account, in the massacre. On January 1, 1962, the wages at the NEVZ were lowered by 30–35%. At the same time, the production quotas which were set up for workers as a part of the Soviet Union’s planned economy were raised. These events also coincided with a sharp nationwide increase in the prices of dairy and meat products (up to 35% according to one account), raising them above the budget of many workers. Protesters gathered near the city’s central administrative building did not disperse＜.＞・・・motorised infantry units were called to suppress the protesters, but they fired in the air; the lethal fire came from a unit of Internal troops＜（注1）＞ from Rostov-on-Don, composed of 10 snipers and 2 machine guns, firing from the “Don” hotel.

　（注1）当時は、内務省隷下の秘密警察OGPU（Joint State Political Directorate）の準軍事組織。国内外で活動し、農業集団化やシベリア送り等を担当した。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_State_Political_Directorate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Troops_of_Russia

　Orders to kill were passed through the whole chain of command from Khrushchev via the ministry of defense・・・, killing 26 and wounding 87, including children. Arrests, show trials and cover-ups ensued: about 240 were arrested, seven people were convicted of various crimes such as “mass disorder” and sentenced to death and hundreds of others were imprisoned for up to 15 years (though the prison terms of some were later reduced). News of the events never appeared in the state-controlled press and the Soviet government continued to conceal it until April 27, 1991′
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novocherkassk_massacre
というものです。
　この事件における唯一の救いは、（映画でも少しディテールを変えて紹介されていますが、）’Lieutenant General and Hero of the Soviet Union＜であった、＞・・・Matvey Shaposhnikov・・・＜が、d＞uring th＜is＞・・・massacre・・・, as the first deputy commander of the North Caucasian Military District, ・・・refused to comply with the order to attack the demonstrators with tanks＜,and＞ later tried to publicize information about the Novocherkassk massacre by sending six letters to the Soviet Komsomol committee and a number of higher education institutions.’こと
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matvey_Shaposhnikov
です。

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