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The KGB massacred thousands of Poles in 1940 Kharkiv, declassified files reveal
[editorial]Millions of people around the world know about the Katyn massacre, the execution of 22,000 Poles captured in…
The deadly salt mine of Salina: How the NKVD liquidated 3,600 persons on June 22, 1941
Here is the story of yet another barbaric crime committed by Stalin’s NKVD. On June 27, 1941, residents…
More victims of soviet terror found in Zhytomyr Oblast (update)
From August 2 to August 4, Poshuk continued to search and excavate territories that were settled by inhabitants…
Mass graves of victims of communist regime found in Zhytomyr region (photos)
“From July 19 to July 21, while conducting more excavation work on the mass massacre site of civilians,…
How Stalin destroyed the Crimean Tatar intellectual elite
Major changes in political strategy swept the USSR towards the end of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1937-1938,…
Prison on Lontskoho in Lviv: Ukraine’s museum of soviet horror
The building was constructed in 1889-1890 at the intersection of Sapiehy (today Stepana Bandery) and Kopernika Streets according…
Mass graves of NKVD victims found in former Dubno prison
The group discovered 19 bodies in a deep pit, not far from the prison wall. Among them: three…
134 bodies of NKVD victims unearthed in Ivano-Frankivsk
In the summer of 2017, while laying cables along the street, engineers stumbled upon several human remains. Pamyat…
Mass graves of victims of political repression discovered in Ivano-Frankivsk
According to eyewitnesses, the employees of Prykarpattyaoblenergo did not initially understand what they were looking at even though…