Massacre

Chervyen massacre

Jun 1941 · 53.69° N, 28.47° E

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When
Jun 1941
Kind
Massacre
Coordinates
53.69° N, 28.47° E
Description
Episode of mass murder of political prisoners

Chervyen massacre

Soviet-perpetrated mass murder of political prisoners

The Chervyen massacre, also called the Minsk–Chervyen Death March was a NKVD prisoner massacre on 25–27 June 1941. Political prisoners from Lithuania, Poland and Belarus were forced by the NKVD into a death march eastwards from Minsk to Chervyen after Operation Barbarossa began and many were executed.

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