ABSTRACT
The production of ‘myths’ and ‘silences’ in societies stands for a range of forms of imposing specific narratives through various media. The discussions of the ‘unsaids’ and ‘black spots’ in the construction of the historical narratives are well established in Slavic studies; this chapter gives a brief overview of those and introduces the term ‘common unsaids’, which are imposed by the Soviet taxonomy in the Soviet kraevedenie museums. The ‘common unsaids’ have been imposed by a range of state policies, but also by the state of the art of the respective disciplines that the museums represented (geography, history, and ethnography). The massiveness and the extent to which kraevedenie has been spread make these ‘unsaids’ truly common and vernacular.
