Bones uncovered on the outskirts of the Pacific port of Vladivostok belong to hundreds of victims of Stalinist purges executed by the NKVD secret police, municipal officials and experts said Thursday.Just one place outside one city in the Soviet Union. One place.
City authorities said last month that at least 495 skeletons — many with head gunshot wounds — were among 3.5 tons of bones that had been unearthed from a mass grave by workmen building a road.
3.5 tons of bones from people executed by the Soviet secret police.
This was the reality of the regime that the Paul Robesons and Lillian Hellmans supported. But only a part of it.
"3.5 Tons of Bones Declared Victims of Stalin Purges." By Reuters, Moscow Times, 7/16/10 (emphasis added).
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