Poroshenko remembers victims of political repression, likens NKVD to Gestapo
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, government members and Kyiv officials remembered political repression victims at the Bykivnia Graves national history memorial on the outskirts of Kyiv on May 17.
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Bykivnia Graves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Bykivnia Graves (Ukrainian: Биківнянські могили) is a National Historic Memorial on the site of the former village of Bykivnia (Ukrainian: Биківня, Russian: Быковня, Polish: Bykownia) on the outskirts of Kiev. During the Stalinist period in the Soviet Union, it was one of the unmarked mass grave sites where the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, disposed of thousands of executed “enemies of the Soviet state”.
The number of dead bodies buried there is estimated between “dozens of thousand,” to 30,000, to 100,000 and up to 120,000, though some estimates place the number as high as 200,000 or even 225,000.
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NKVD prisoner massacres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The NKVD prisoner massacres were a series of mass executions carried out by the Soviet NKVD secret police during World War II against prisoners in Eastern Europe, primarily Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic states, Bessarabia and other parts of the Soviet Union from which the Red Army was retreating following the German invasion of the USSR on 22 June 1941 (Operation Barbarossa).
Estimates of the death toll vary between locations (nearly 9,000 in the Ukrainian SSR, 20,000–30,000 in occupied eastern Poland, now Western Ukraine), but the total number of victims was approximately 100,000.