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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 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 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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    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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    Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war...
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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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    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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    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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    were executed except Rakovsky and two others (who were killed in NKVD prisoner massacres in 1941). Despite the promise to spare his family, Bukharin's wife...
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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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    Gulag (category NKVD)
    department of NKVD (later MVD) in charge of handling of foreign civilian internees and POWs (prisoners of war) in the Soviet Union during and in the aftermath...
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    Vileyka-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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    Far East 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...
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    Berezwecz-Taklinovo Death Road (category NKVD prisoner massacres)
    testimonies and accounts of witnesses involved in the exhumation of the victims of the NKVD prisoner massacres, there is repeated mention of discovered bodies...
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    Evacuation of Chortkiv Prison (category NKVD prisoner massacres)
    about prisoners being walled alive, which is repeated in the accounts of many witnesses of the NKVD prisoner massacres, most probably had its source in rumors...
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    the railroad in Krasoe village were sent to the Far East: Irkutsk, Karaganda. Others left the village to escape the NKVD prisoner massacres or joined the...
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    the NKVD; once a month a person had to register at a local law enforcement office at a selsoviet in rural areas or at a militsiya department in urban...
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  • Valozhyn-Tarasovo Death Road (category NKVD prisoner massacres)
    on the 55th anniversary of the evacuation of NKVD prisoners deep into the USSR, Łódź, June 10, 1996] (in Polish). Warszawa: Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni...
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    Lviv Oblast (category States and territories established in 1939)
    annexation of Eastern Galicia and Volhynia. Several NKVD prisoner massacres were committed in the area in 1941, including at Lviv, Sambir and Dobromyl. It...
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    Kurapaty (category NKVD)
    (2001) Bykivnia Dem'ianiv Laz Great Purge Katyn massacre NKVD massacres of prisoners Vinnytsia massacre Gaidamavičius, Giedrius (4 April 2021). "Belarus...
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    Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush (category 1944 in the Soviet Union)
    October 1943 and 19,000 officers as well as 100,000 NKVD soldiers from all over the USSR participated in this operation. The deportation encompassed their...
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    Yakov Dzhugashvili (category Soviet prisoners of war)
    Odessa. After meeting Meltzer at a reception in a restaurant, Dzhugashvili fought with her second husband, an NKVD officer called Nikolai Bessarab, an aide...
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    the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and under the direction of the NKVD official Lavrentiy Beria, forcibly transferred populations of various groups...
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    Roman Shukhevych (category Perpetrators of massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia)
    in Lviv, Shukhevych reportedly found the body of his brother among the victims of the NKVD prisoner massacres committed by the Soviet occupiers. In Lviv...
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    NKVD, was where many kulaks were transported to work in perilous circumstances. Numerous captives suffered from starvation, illness, and torture in the...
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    subjected to purges by Joseph Stalin. The Great Purge ended in 1939. In October 1940 the NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs), under its new...
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    Deportation of the Balkars (category 1944 in the Soviet Union)
    Asia on March 8, 1944, during World War II. The expulsion was ordered by NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria after approval by General Secretary Joseph Stalin....
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  • Galina Dzhugashvili (category Deaths from cancer in Russia)
    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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  • Stalin Epigram (category 1933 in the Soviet Union)
    poem was almost the first case Genrikh Yagoda dealt with after becoming NKVD boss. Nikolai Bukharin visited Yagoda to intercede for Mandelstam, unaware...
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