Mass graves in Ukraine found linked to Stalin's purges ...

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Mass graves have been found in Ukraine related to Stalin's purges in the 1930's...

Mass Graves in Ukraine Hold Thousands of Victims of Stalin's Great Purge | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

Between 1936 and 1938, Stalin’s infamous secret police agency, the NKVD, waged a ruthless campaign of terror against high-ranking Communist Party officials and ordinary citizens alike. Estimates of the death toll vary, but History.com points out that at least 750,000 people were executed during the Great Purge (also known as the Great Terror). Millions more were detained in the Gulag, a vast system of forced labor and prison camps.

 

[Stevicus]

Mass graves have been found in Ukraine related to Stalin's purges in the 1930's...

Mass Graves in Ukraine Hold Thousands of Victims of Stalin's Great Purge | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

One part of the article indicated that they may not be able to identify the victims, since the official records are still classified and in Moscow:

Identifying the remains may prove impossible, as official records from that period are classified and held in Moscow.

“These documents will never be handed over to us under the current government in Russia,” says Sergiy Gutsalyuk, head of the local branch of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (UINP), in a separate AFP report.

After the fall of the USSR, the Soviets opened up their archives and released tons of documents related to that regime. Even Khrushchev denounced Stalin and made public much information which revealed the scope of the atrocities during the Stalin era. I'm not sure why documents from this event would have been withheld or why they would withhold anything now.

 

[Valjean]

Surprise, surprise..