Tag: Stalin's Terror
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Remembering the Katyn Massacre and Stalinist crimes in Poland
HISTORY In April and May of 1940, 22 000 Polish army officers and civilians were murdered by Stalin’s NKVD. This year marks the 81st anniversary of what for a long time has been one of the many forgotten crimes of Stalin’s oligarchy. Remembering the Katyn Massacre today defies decades of denialism and renewed attempts to obscure the truth.…
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Building over a mass grave: Russian council continues its erasure of Stalin’s Terror
REPORT Activists from the Ural branch of the post-Soviet historical and civil rights NGO, Memorial, are raising the alarm, after finding evidence that Yekaterinburg council is commencing a new construction project within a known mass burial ground. In the grounds lie an estimated minimum of 20 000 victims of Stalinist crimes. The civil rights organisation,…
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