From 1917 to 1991, a multitude of war crimes and crimes against humanity were carried out by the Soviet Union or its constituent Soviet republics, including the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Rep
Katyn massacre 1943 exhumation
Victims of a Soviet-perpetrated massacre in Yerevan, Armenia during the suppression of the February Uprising of 1921
Soviet invasion of Poland, 1939. Advance of the Red Army troops.
Victims of a NKVD prisoner massacre in Lwów in occupied Poland in June 1941
During World War II, the German Wehrmacht committed systematic war crimes, including massacres, mass rape, looting, the exploitation of forced labour, the murder of three million Soviet prisoners of w
Mass grave of Soviet prisoners of war. Soviet POWs were often subjected to forced marches without adequate food or water and commonly shot.
The Nazi Security Police rounding up Polish intelligentsia at Palmiry near Warsaw in 1940
During World War II 85% of buildings in Warsaw were destroyed by German troops.
About 300 Polish POWs executed by the soldiers of the German 15th motorized infantry regiment in Ciepielów on September 9, 1939