r/history • u/Cultural_Grapefruit7 • 20d ago

Stalin-era mass grave found in Ukraine News article

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58340805
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u/ravagedbygoats 19d ago

It's weird thinking about how many undiscovered mass Graves are still out there.

It's even weirder to think that we are still putting people in mass graves to this day.

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u/sw04ca 17d ago

Is it really that weird?

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u/cheeeetoes 19d ago

I am reading "forgotten Soldier" guy sajer. And in it, the author, a soldier in the German Weremacht gives a lot of insight into the terrible positions these Ukrainians were put in. When a town surrendered, friendly Ukrainians would come up to the German soldiers and put lists of who the Nazis should shoot into their pockets. The lists told who was the local commissar sent from Moscow who had already killed a number of people in the village for "underproduction".

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u/Valiantheart 19d ago

Yeah as terrible as the Germans were on their march East they were often looked upon as saviors from the communists. The Russians purged the shit out of those towns when they retook them.

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

Yeah as terrible as the Germans were on their march East they were often looked upon as saviors from the communists.

It would be wrong to categorize people generally as for or against fascists and communists. In reality different people have different sympathies and it's very particular. It's just a shame for all the civilians that both sides were brutal in their reprisals for "colluding with the enemy".

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u/VarunOB 19d ago

How surprising. /s

Genuinely, though, I'm very curious as to how many mass graves from regimes totalitarian have not been stumbled upon yet.

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u/kenzo19134 7d ago

"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic."

Uncle Joe Stalin