Vinnytsia massacre
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The Vinnytsia massacre was the mass execution of over 9,000 people in the Ukrainian town of Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD during the Great Purge in 1937–1938, which Nazi Germany discovere
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The International commission investigating the mass murder in Vinnytsia, 1943
Mass graves for the victims
German propaganda poster of c. 1943 with text "Vinnitsa"; the NKVD gunman has stereotypically Jewish features, in accordance with the Nazi idea of "Judeo-Bolshevism".
Great Purge
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The Great Purge or Great Terror, also known as the Year of '37 and the Yezhovshchina, was a political purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. After the assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nik
Vinnytsia massacre
…The Vinnytsia massacre was the mass execution of over 9,000 people in the Ukrainian town of Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD during the Great Purge in 1937–1938, which Nazi Germany discovered during its occupation of Ukraine in 1943. The investigation of the site first conducted by the international…
Excerpt from NKVD Order No. 00447
Leningrad party leader Sergei Kirov with Stalin and his daughter, Svetlana, in 1934
Bolshevik revolutionaries Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, and Grigory Zinoviev