RFE: Mass Graves Of Stalin's Great Purge Victims Found In Ukraine
Mass graves of victims of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s Great Purge campaign of the 1930s have been discovered in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (UINP) said over the weekend that 29 mass graves had been found on the territory of a site called Tatarka in the Black Sea port city of Odesa.
The graves were located after an Odesa-based historian, Oleksandr Babich, discovered documents in Romanian archives about mass executions and burials in Odesa in the 1930s.
According to the documents, the mass graves might stretch further to the territory of a nearby military unit.
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Update #1: Stalin-era mass grave found in Ukraine -- BBC
Update #2: Remains of thousands of people believed to be victims of Stalin’s terror discovered in Ukraine -- The Independent
WNU Editor: Ukraine does not have a monopoly of mass graves from Stalin's era. Mass graves of Stalin's purges exist in every former Soviet state. But it is a good thing this research and documenting these sites is underway. It is something that should never be forgotten.
11 comments:
What is a few mass graves among socialists?
One generation or two and the details have been forgotten. Other than the written word this could be said to have never happened.
It's a little bit in the above 2 comments. Given that those events are very well known the question is "why talk about it now"?
Jesus, the hostility from the WNU Editor about Ukraine is plain to see. Nothing in the article suggests Ukraine has a monopoly over such things, but he went ahead and claimed as such.
Snuff the candle's flame; lose the light and what it exposes, 11:36.
Not my take on the editor's comments, 11:33.
"those events are very well known". Know anyone younger than 70 in this country, 11:36?
Your point is well taken, it just seemed odd they'd bring this up now.
I most likely don't. I'm just curious why this talked about now.
1:40, 2:03, and 2:09 , I'm sorry I came off the way I did. It just seems this discovery came at an unusual time. And in the past it was the unusual that drew my attention.
I really didn't sense any hostility tbh.
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