What the records say
- When
- 1941
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 100,000
- Coordinates
- 65.00° N, 90.00° E
- Description
- mass murders of political prisoners by Soviet secret police in June 1941 during World War II
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
NKVD prisoner massacres
1941 mass executions of Soviet political prisoners
The NKVD prisoner massacres were a series of mass executions of political prisoners carried out by the NKVD, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union, across Eastern Europe, primarily in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic states, and Bessarabia.
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