Stalin’s Soviet Union · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Levashovo Memorial Cemetery (1937–54)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Levashovo”
1937–1954 — In a fenced wasteland north of Leningrad the NKVD buried people shot in the city’s prisons, tens of thousands in all, most of them in 1937–38. It opened as a memorial cemetery in 1989, and families have hung photographs of the dead on its pine trees.
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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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