8 hours agoMass cemetery discovered with the remains of some 80,000 people in Ukraine
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)What may be the largest mass cemetery of Stalin's age in Ukraine has been identified by researchers. The remains of a total of 5,000 to 8 thousand have been found in 29 cemeteries in the southern town of Odessa. The country, believed to date back to the 1930 ' s, [...]
The remains of a total of 5,000 to 8 thousand have been found in 29 cemeteries in the southern town of Odessa.
The country, believed to date back to the 1930s of the past century, discovered during an explosive effort planned to expand the airport, reports the BBC, translates Periscopi.
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are believed to have died during the savage rule of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union.
Sergiy Gutsaluk, head of the regional branch of the National Memorial Institute, told AFP that the victims were likely killed by the Soviet secret police during the end of the years of yet.
However, he said it was not possible to identify victims since the data was being kept in Russia.
According to the Ukrinform site, some 8600 people in Odessa had been sentenced to death by secret police between 1938 and 1941. /Periscope
