LACK OF LEGAL GROUNDS TO KEEP MATERIALS ON THE POLITICAL REPRESSIONS OF THE 1920S AND 1950S AS SECRET

Abstract

In the methodological article, the author raises one of the fundamental, and therefore problematic, issues of the process of complete rehabilitation of victims of political repression. he carried out an in -depth study of the essence of such a phenomenon as the classification of the maximum amount of information about the most diverse spheres of life, politics, security, law, court, economics, science and culture. based on the study and critical analysis of the normative legal documents of the USSR, being fa miliar with the practice of declassification during many years of work in the central committee of the Kazakh SSR, the author comes to the conclusion that political censorship was generated by the very nature of the totalitarian system of power and managem ent, which was established on the territory of the victorious "stalinist socialism."