Sandarmokh
Sign in to savethumb|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.
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- Discovery and remembrance
- Those shot at Sandarmokh, 1937–1938
- Victims and executioners
- New digs and alternative hypothesis
- Publications
- See also
- References
- External links
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.
At least 1,000 victims were from the Solovki special prison on an island in the White Sea. It was long thought that the barges carrying them were deliberately sunk on the way to the mainland, drowning all the prisoners on board. Others were rounded up during the Great Terror in Karelia, in accordance with quotas for prisoners, 'enemies of the regime', and a variety of "national operations". According to available documentation at least 6,000 were shot and buried at Sandarmokh.
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