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- forest
- Country
- Belarus
- Located in
- Minsk District
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- Kurapaty.jpg
- Significant event
- massacre
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thumb|Kurapaty forest graves
Kurapaty (, ) is a wooded area on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, where a vast number of people were executed between 1937 and 1941 during the Great Purge by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD and in particular, during the Soviet repressions in Belarus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kurapaty” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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