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    The NKVD prisoner massacres were a series of mass executions of political prisoners carried out by the NKVD, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs...
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    The NKVD prison massacres in Lviv were a mass murder of prisoners held in Lviv prisons and detention centers, carried out by Soviet NKVD and NKGB officers...
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    The NKVD prisoner massacre in Dubno was a Soviet war crime conducted by the NKVD in the city of Dubno, then in occupied Poland and now in Ukraine. Between...
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    The NKVD prisoner massacre in Sambir was a Soviet war crime conducted by the NKVD in the city of Sambir, then located in occupied Poland (now in Ukraine)...
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    The NKVD prisoner massacre in Zolochiv was a Soviet war crime conducted by the NKVD in the city of Zolochiv, then in occupied Poland and now in Ukraine...
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    The NKVD prisoner massacre in Berezhany was a Soviet war crime conducted by the NKVD in the city of Berezhany, then in occupied Poland and now in Ukraine...
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    The NKVD prisoner massacre in Lutsk was a Soviet war crime conducted by the NKVD and NKGB in the city of Lutsk, situated in occupied Poland (present-day...
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    of victims of the Soviet NKVD prisoner massacres, which were widely blamed on "Jewish Bolsheviks". The subsequent massacres were directed by the Germans...
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    Estonian NKVD Tartu district leader Pavel Afanasjev (1903–1941) and Communist Party secretary Abronov, a decision was reached to execute the prisoners. Of...
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  • Joseph Stalin. This execution was one of the many massacres of prisoners hastily committed by the NKVD in 1941 in the wake of German invasion. In 1941,...
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    deny responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the killings by the NKVD, as well as the subsequent cover-up...
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    Soviet NKVD (Secret Police) panicked and executed their prisoners en masse before retreating in what became known as the NKVD prisoner massacres. The most...
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    of direct connection between the NKVD prisoner massacres and the German AB-Aktion in Poland leading to the massacre of several thousand prominent Poles...
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    Vinnytsia massacre was the mass execution of between 9,000 and 11,000 people in the Ukrainian town of Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD during the...
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    massacre (Belarusian: Чэрвеньская разня; Lithuanian: Červenės žudynės; Polish: Droga śmierci Mińsk-Czerwień) was one of the NKVD prisoner massacres....
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  • Valozhyn-Tarasovo Death Road (category NKVD prisoner massacres)
    The death toll from this massacre reached approximately one hundred. This atrocity was one among many prisoner massacres carried out by the Soviet secret...
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    Evacuation of Chortkiv Prison (category NKVD prisoner massacres)
    information about prisoners being walled alive, which is repeated in the accounts of many witnesses of the NKVD prisoner massacres, most probably had...
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  • the list of massacres in that country. List of massacres in Russia List of massacres in Ukraine List of massacres in Belarus List of massacres in Lithuania...
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    as 44,125 deaths from Crimea, or a 19.3% mortality rate. The massacre was prompted by NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all captive members...
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    Vilyeyka-Barysaw Death Road (category NKVD prisoner massacres)
    of the prison, carried out by the NKVD after the German invasion of the USSR, began on June 24, 1941. The prisoners were formed into several marching...
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  • This is a list of massacres that have occurred in the modern day areas of Ukraine. These events involving multiple deaths in Ukraine are not widely known...
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    among others. The NKVD also executed tens of thousands of Polish political prisoners in 1940–1941, including at the Katyń massacre. On 26 November 2010...
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    Grodno (category NKVD prisoner massacres)
    inmates of the Grodno prison were released and the scale of the NKVD prisoner massacres revealed. In the course of Operation Barbarossa in World War II...
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    to unpopulated areas of the Kazakh SSR and the Uzbek SSR in 1937 by the NKVD on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Chairman of the Council...
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  • Artyom Sergeyev (category Soviet prisoners of war)
    Great Purge Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization NKVD prisoner massacres Berezhany Berezwecz Dubno Chortkiv Kurapaty Katyn Lutsk Lviv Medvedev...
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    Soviet war crimes (category Massacres in the Soviet Union)
    operations of the NKVD Military history of the Soviet Union Military occupations by the Soviet Union Nemmersdorf massacre NKVD prisoner massacres Operation Frühlingserwachen...
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    Berezwecz-Taklinovo Death Road (category NKVD prisoner massacres)
    the NKVD prisoner massacres, there is repeated mention of discovered bodies bearing signs of severe torture. Some evidence suggests that certain NKVD members...
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  • her second husband, an NKVD officer called Nikolai Bessarab, and arranged her divorce. Bessarab was later arrested by the NKVD and executed. Yakov became...
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    Lukiškės Prison (category NKVD prisoner massacres)
    June 1941, during the German invasion, the NKVD shot prisoners at Lukiškės Prison (see NKVD prisoner massacres). The prison became more notorious during...
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    atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war. During the NKVD prisoner massacres in 1941, NKVD personnel led prisoners on death marches to various locations...
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