Throughout the many years that Mr. Orlando Figes has been in his career, he revolved many of his works within the Government regime of the late Vladimir Putin. To be more certain in this subject matter, the allegation that was made by Mr. Figes to Putin is that Mr. Vladimir Putin had tried to attempt to revitalize what the Joseph Staling Government tried to necessitate which is to inculcate the agenda with the History Teachers of theRussianSchools and other Universities.
On December 4, 2008, the St. Petersburgoffices in the memorial society were raided by the government authorities taking the whole electronic archive of St. Petersburgmemorial office that includes all of the information that was gathered by Mr. Figes in order to create his award winning book entitled “The Whisperers”, everything was taken away by the police. Mr. Figes were saddened the raid that was done by the government authorities and held them accused in trying to revitalize the Stalinist era of Russia. He fearlessly filed an open complaint letter to the Russia’s President who was still Dmitry Medvedev as well as to other Russian leaders. Right after that incident, Mr. Orlando Figes didn’t just stopped there and whine but rather he fought for what he believed in.
Fortunately, Mr. Figes wasn’t alone as hundreds or even thousands of academically acclaimed leaders from around the globe supported his letter. The letter was heard and the case started and after fighting a handful of court hearings, they won. All of the information was sent back to the memorial archives of St. Petersburgmemorial on May of the year 2009. Apparently on the 2nd of March in the year 2009, the contract in regards to the continuation of Mr. Figes’ book publishing which was “The Whisperers” inRussia was cancelled by the publishing house which is Atticus. The Atticus publishing house has claimed that they are having financial shift and that is why they cancelled the publishing of his book.
The book resumed to being distributed as a charitable organization named Dinastia extended their hands to Mr. Figes. A trivia is that the Dinastia is the one who helped finance the translation of the book to different languages to start with. Mr. Orlando Figes has stated at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Just Recently this August of 2011 that a certain percent of the income that he has been able to make with his book, “The Whisperers”, will proceed to charitable groups inRussia. As of now, Mr. Figes proactively involves himself with an International Summer school for all of the certified history teachers of the Russian Universities. This type of movement has been initialized as well as organized by theEuropeanUniversity ofSt. Petersburg.