Our book has two main recipients. The first is those affected by political repression. By publishing the book, we pay our debt to the memory of those who for a long time undeservedly bore the label “enemy of the people”, “son of the enemy of the people”, etc. Soon we will be able to name those who were convicted for political reasons in our region. These people and their loved ones, having picked up the Book of Memory, must make sure that society remembers their tragedy. The second recipient is the young generation, which, thank God, did not have the opportunity to experience the effects of the Soviet repressive machine. Of course, young people read something about the repressions, watched some films, heard something from relatives. But, unfortunately, most young people have a very vague idea of how the entire Soviet people, with few exceptions, agreed with the existence of a totalitarian system and came to terms with mass repressions. By the way, many representatives of the older generation do not understand or do not want to understand this. Despite hundreds of publications, society still does not clearly understand the mechanisms of action of the Soviet repressive system. Therefore, the book will be of interest to a wide range of readers.