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  • 'Stalin victims' found in Belarus

    07/26/2009 6:25:11 PM PDT · by BlackVeil · 12 replies · 178+ views
    BBC ^ | 24 July 2009 | anon
    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...