Ukrainians Commemorate Victims of Communist Repressions

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Channel: UATV English · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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A few kilometers away from Kyiv, on the outskirts - of what was once - Bykivnia village, there is a mass grave containing the remains of the victims of Stalin's repressions.
The Bykivnia forest was used as a mass unmarked burial site for 5 years — from 1937 until 1941. Here, the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, disposed of thousands of executed soviet citizens. 
Every year on the eve of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions, the employees of the Memorial complex and the relatives of the killed clean the unmarked graves.
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