Kommunarka shooting ground
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title:
Kommunarka shooting ground
text:
The Kommunarka firing range, former dacha of secret police chief Genrikh Yagoda, was used as a burial ground from 1937 to 1941. Executions may have been carried out there by the NKVD during the Great Terror and until the war started; alternatively, bodies of those shot elsewhere might have been brought there for later interment. As Russian historian Arseny Roginsky explained: "firing range" was a popular euphemism adopted to describe mysterious and closely-guarded plots of land that the NKVD beg
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Execution venue and burial ground in Moscow Oblast
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommunarka_shooting_ground
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2024-04-09T10:02:42Z
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