Russia Far East grave held victims of Stalin purges

reuteurs ^ | 15 Jul 2010 | Reuters

[Flavius]

Bones uncovered on the outskirts of Russia's Pacific port of Vladivostok belong to hundreds of victims of Stalinist purges executed by the NKVD secret police, municipal officials and experts said on Thursday.

City authorities said last month that at least 495 skeletons -- many with head gunshot wounds -- and 3.5 tonnes of bones had been unearthed from the mass grave by workmen building a road.

[tet68]

Likely to find that all over the “Worker’s Paradise”.

[Amberdawn]

One can only wonder how many more of these graves lie hidden in Russia’s vast expanse. It is too sad to know that those who perpetrated these mass murders will never stand trial for them.

[SkyDancer]

...."will never stand trial for them.

I believe that many have already stood trial and their punishment has been meted out ....

[Mmogamer]

3.5 tons?

[Gay State Conservative]

Walter Duranty would say that they were all suicides...or victims of counter-revolutionary bandits.

[silverleaf]

vlad bookmark

[bmwcyle]

I wonder where the Obama mass graves will be starting with the health care victims.

[Amberdawn]

Lenin, Stalin, Beria, etc., never went to trial.

[Amberdawn]

I guess they felt a need to weigh the bones-All that was left.

[xp38]

Perhaps that is in reference to a trial beyond the grave.

[eleni121]

Lenin, Stalin, Beria, etc., never went to trial.

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And none of them even Russian.

[MrPiper]

I wonder where the Obama mass graves will be starting with the health care victims.

Big difference, I'm armed.

[Mmogamer]

Beria got his tho, Trotsky to.

[MuttTheHoople]

As bad as Hitler was, Stalin was worse. While we search the ends of the earth for 100 year old Nazi concentration camp guards (which we should do), all the Communist murderers are sleeping in warm, comfortable beds.

[BobL]

Perhaps some day there will be a Soviet Holocaust Museum, to show the world just what Communism is capable of.

But then I wake up.

[Amberdawn]

Yes, now it makes sense.

[SkyDancer]

The trial I was talking about is the one where you have no defense for your actions - IOW - God has judged them when they stood before Him ....

[Amberdawn]

Yes, but I still would like to have seen (for historical purposes) the perpetrators put on trial. Perhaps then we wouldn’t have such silence on the crimes of communism.

[GBA]

And Hilter, not German...and obama, not American.