Geography of the Stalinist camps and executions - ForumDaily
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The geography of the Stalinist camps and executions

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October 30 in Russia is the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression. But how many people were killed in the USSR during the “Great Terror” of 1937-39, as well as before and after it, is still not known exactly.

According to "Currently,“According to official data, in 1930-1953, 3,8 million people were convicted in cases of the OGPU-NKVD-MVD, and 1923 thousand people were executed in 1953-800.

Historians believe that these data are understated by several times.

Society "Memorial" was able to accurately confirm the information on more than 2,6 millions of citizens of the USSR, who were subjected to political repression in those years. Their names are precisely known by whom they were, where they lived and for what they were arrested.

But many victims remain unknown.

Historians Okhotin and Roginsky believe that from 1921 to 1953 in the USSR about 5,5 million people were arrested and convicted on political charges. According to other estimates, at least 1920 million people visited prisons and camps from the end of 1953's to 20 of the year when Stalin died. But this statistic does not take into account many special settlers, prisoners of war and internees.

Today, the Russian state still does not collect information about those sent to camps and executed by the NKVD. Their unmarked graves are searched only by volunteer search teams and historians of the Memorial Society.

"Present Tense" writes only about a few places where massively shot those who were convicted of political articles and kept them in camps.

1. Koirankangas

Koyrankangas (fin. Koirankangas - "Wasteland of Dogs"") - the site of mass executions near the village of Toksovo on the territory of the Rzhev artillery range. According to the testimony of former residents of the villages of Kiurumäki, Konkolovo and Lepsari, executions took place there from the late 1920s until the beginning of World War II.

According to researchers, about 30 thousand people can be buried in the tract.

2. Golden Hill in Chelyabinsk

Residents of Chelyabinsk are confident that in the 30s of the 20th century, thousands of people were shot in the mines at Zolotaya Gorka from 12 to 30. But the authorities do not officially recognize these crimes: the results of the excavation of mines are classified.

3. Sandarmoh

This tract is located in the Medvezhiegorsk region of Karelia in 12 km from Medvezhegorsk. It is estimated by search engines that more than 10 people were shot and buried on the square in 1937 hectares during the Great Terror 1938 — 9500. These were mainly special settlers and prisoners of the White Sea-Baltic Canal (Kanaloarmiitsy), as well as prisoners of the Solovki camps.

4. Lokchimlag

In the Komi Republic, many camps were built along the Lokchim River, in the middle of the taiga, tundra and swamps. Many foreigners have passed through these camps in 1920-30-ies: Poles, Chinese, Koreans, Afghans, Iranians, Latvians and Lithuanians.

5. ALGERIA

This is the abbreviated name for the Akmola camp for the wives of traitors to the motherland in the Kazakh village of Akmol not far from Astana. Since 1938, it was here that repressed women from all over the Soviet Union were exiled. Over 16 years, more than 20 thousand prisoners passed through the camp: wives, daughters, sisters of “traitors to the motherland” and other women from the families of those convicted under “execution” articles. Moreover, over the 16 years of existence in ALZHIR, there was not a single woman convicted personally: all of them were guilty only of the fact that their relatives were recognized as “enemies of the people.”

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