Stalin’s Soviet Union · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Bykivnia graves (1937–41)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Bykivnia”
1937–1941 — In a forest on the edge of Kyiv, the NKVD buried victims shot in the city’s prisons; estimates range from about 30,000 to more than 100,000. Soviet authorities blamed the Germans until 1989.
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- Great Terror (Great Purge) (chapter 6 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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