Every Wednesday, Aleksei Nesterenko stands outside building No. 23 on Moscow’s Nikolskaya Street with a sign calling for it to be turned into a branch of the city’s GULAG museum. On September 12, 1938, Nesterenko’s father was executed inside that building, which at the time was home to the Military Collegium of the Soviet Supreme Court.
Nesterenko and a handful of other children of “enemies of the people” are waging an uphill battle, pushing for a law against lionizing Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
