The NKVD prisoner massacres were a series of mass executions committed by the Soviet NKVD secret police against prisoners in Eastern Europe during World War II, primarily Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic states, Bessarabia and other parts of the Soviet Union from which the Red Army was withdrawing ahead of the German invasion in 1941 . Estimates on the death toll vary between locations leading to a total of 100,000 or more, from nearly 9,000 in the Ukrainian SSR, to 20,000–30,000 in occupied eastern Poland,now Western Ukraine, to all Tartar prisoners in Crimea among other places. Not all prisoner victims (150,000 of them in total) were murdered; some were transported into the interior, others were abandoned or managed to escape because the retreating Soviet executioners logistically could not pay attention to all of them.
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:41:10 +0000
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