Massacres in the Soviet Union

Soviet mass murder of ca. 22,000 Poles in several parts of European Russia, including in the Katyn forest, which became a pars pro toto name for the whole massacre

Soviet campaign of political repression, imprisonment, and execution (August 1936 - March 1938)

1983 shoot-down of a civilian airliner over the then–Soviet Union

1991 protest in Lithuania

mass execution in Ukraine

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1962 killings

war crimes perpetrated by the Soviet Union and its armed forces

1924 failed insurrection against Soviet rule in the Georgian SSR

anti-de-Stalinization protests in the Georgian SSR

Nazi massacre in Belarus

Soviet concentration camp on the Solovetsky Islands that operated from 1923 to 1939. It became a symbol of the Gulag system

thumb|The monumental slab at the entrance to the Sandarmokh burial grounds reads: "People! do not kill one another". Sandarmokh (; ) is a forest massif from Medvezhyegorsk in the Republic of Karelia where an unknown number, estimated in the thousands, of victims of Stalin's Great Terror were executed. More than 58 nationalities were shot and buried there by the NKVD in 236 communal pits over a 14-month period in 1937 and 1938.

world War II mass shooting of Jews

1937-38 Soviet ethnic cleansing of Poles, forced evacuations to Siberia and Gulags

1941 NKVD mass execution of Oryol prisoners

gulag prisoner revolt

During World War II, the Nazi German ''''''' were a sub-group of the ' (mobile killing squads) – up to 3,000 men total – usually composed of 500–1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to exterminate Jews, Polish intellectuals, Romani, and communists in the captured territories often far behind the advancing German front. Einsatzkommandos, along with Sonderkommandos, were responsible for the systematic murder of Jews during the aftermath of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. After the war, several commanders were tried in the Einsatzgruppen trial, conv

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mass burial site in Poland

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cemetery in Saint Petersburg, Russia

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maritime disaster

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forest and a memorial cemetery in the Republic of Karelia, Russia

graves of executed Soviet citizens and foreigners

thumb|Litene thumb|Litene manor house Litene () is the center of the Litene Parish of Gulbene Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. Other names: Lytene, Myza Lytene. A notable building is Litene Manor.

place on the outskirts of Taganrog, where about 7,000 Soviet citizens, mostly Jews, were killed during the Nazi occupation of the city in 1941-1943

Mass arrests and executions of Latvians in the USSR, 1937-38

attack in 1950

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