Butovo firing range
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butovo-firing-range-182-11671990
title:
Butovo firing range
text:
The Butovo Firing Range or Butovo Shooting Range was an execution site of the Soviet secret police located near Drozhzhino in Leninsky District, Moscow Oblast from 1938 to 1953. Its use for mass execution has been documented; it was prepared as a site for mass burial. According to Arseny Roginsky, "firing range" was a popular euphemism adopted to describe the mysterious and closely-guarded plots of land that the NKVD began to set aside for mass burials on the eve of the Great Terror. Butovo was
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encyclopedia
description:
Execution site of the Soviet secret police
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butovo_firing_range
date created:
2009-05-26T02:51:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T18:26:04Z
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