Bykivnia Graves – Memorial to Victims of Repressions (Kyiv)

Ukraine / Kyyivska / Knyazhychi / Kyiv
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The State Historical–Memorial Complex "Graves of Bykivnia" waas founded on April 30, 1994 (as a complex).

During the Stalinist period in the Soviet Union, it was one of the unmarked mass grave sites where the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, disposed thousands of executed "enemies of the Soviet state".
The number of dead bodies buried there is estimated between "dozens of thousand" to about 200,000.

From the early 1920s until the late 1940s throughout the Stalinist purges, the Soviet government hauled the bodies of tortured and killed political prisoners to the pine forests outside the village of Bykivnia and buried them in a grave that spanned 15,000 m² (160,000 ft²).

210 separate mass graves have been identified by Polish and Ukrainian archaeologists working at the site.
The site might be the final resting place of 3,435 Polish officers captured by the Red Army during the Soviet invasion of Poland, together with Nazi Germany in 1939, most of whom were executed in the spring of 1940 with over 20,000 Polish officers and intellectuals in the Katyn massacre.


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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bykivnia_graves
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Coordinates:   50°28'33"N   30°41'48"E

Comments

  • http://delostalina.ru/?p=1999
  • Such idiotic place )))
  • Very much more then 817 prisoners...
  • to xa-xa-xa: such idiotic comment)))
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