'Stalin victims' found in Belarus

BBC ^ | 24 July 2009 | anon

[BlackVeil]

The remains of more than 20 suspected victims of Joseph Stalin's secret police have been found in the basement of a church in northern Belarus. Soviet bullets were found with the remains at Glubokoye, a village which had been in Poland but fell into Soviet hands in 1939. A youth group discovered the remains earlier this week, reports say. Local historians said the victims had most probably been shot by the NKVD secret police between 1939 and 1941. "I think we can all but rule out any suggestion that these people were shot by the Germans during the occupation," historian Igor Kuznetsov told Reuters. "First, there are the cartridge cases from Soviet weapons. ....

[BlackVeil]

More effort should be made to find and preserve the sites of mass killings during the purges. It is alleged that many sites have been covered up during the Putin era.

[BlackVeil]

A GGG ping ... 20th century, but still ... historical graves.

[Star Traveler]

Wow..., after all these years...

[SunkenCiv]

· join list or digest · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post a topic ·
	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks BlackVeil. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
·Dogpile · Archaeologica · ArchaeoBlog · Archaeology · Biblical Archaeology Society · · Discover · Nat Geographic · Texas AM Anthro News · Yahoo Anthro & Archaeo · Google · · The Archaeology Channel · Excerpt, or Link only? · cgk's list of ping lists ·

[GSP.FAN]

Paging SunkenCiv..

It was also a Jewish ghetto ,so possibly it was the Germans who shot them.

[Mr. Lucky]

...using Soviet weapons?

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Lavrenti Beria, Stalin top NKVD butcher of the era:

A sinister fellow, but he probably was much less insanely murderous than Yezhov, his predecessor.

[SunkenCiv]

With Russian bullets?

[GSP.FAN]

I will wait till the story plays out.
They just found the bodies and they could be jumping to conclusions..
Until further studies are done i will hold my opinion...

[dfwgator]

A precursor for what was to come at Katyn.

[GSP.FAN]

When a story spends it’s whole time blaming it on the Russians and says it was not Ze Germans sets my alarm bells off.
The relationship between Poland and Germany are touchy at the moment.
The story is to cut and dried for my liking,i will wait a little longer,until more info comes out.

[notfornothing]

Well, let’s see....these people were murdered in the Soviet Union by Soviet weapons, in all likelihood before Operation Barbarossa. Why is it so hard to believe the Soviets did it? Maybe it wasn’t murder on a grand enough scale for Stalin’s taste?

[HereInTheHeartland]

We should always be reminded of the end result of big government control of any nation or people.

Limited government is the hallmark of a free people.