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War crimes by Soviet armed forces against civilians and prisoners of war in the territories occupied by the USSR between 1939 and 1941 in regions including Western Ukraine, the Baltic states and Bessarabia in Romania, along with war crimes in 1944–1945
Yemanzhelinsk ( Russian: Еманжели́нск) is a town and the administrative center of Yemanzhelinsky District in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located near the border with Kazakhstan on the eastern slopes of the Southern Ural Mountains, 50 kilometers (31 mi) south of Chelyabinsk, the administrative center of the oblast.
The following is a list of massacres that took place in the Soviet Union. For massacres that took place in countries that were once part of the Soviet Union, see the list of massacres in that country.
Soviet war crimes trials under Stalin (1943-1953)1 The prosecution of Nazi war crimes was the first item on the agenda of the anti-Hitler coalition. As early as October 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill publicly declared that retribution for Nazi crimes was one of the major purposes of the war.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA AND THE USSR (1917–1953): EMERGENCE, DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFER TO THE LITHUANIAN SSR Monika Kareniauskaitė ABSTRACT The aim of the article is to analyse the Soviet definition of crime, the structure and logic of Soviet criminal law, and the system of criminal prosecution developed by the Bolsheviks after the October Rev-
This chapter analyses the attempts of three Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — to prosecute offences against international law committed in their territories by the Soviet authorities during and after World War II. It highlights the storytelling or history-writing function of trials of international crimes.
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While the cast of the indictment was set within a large framework of crimes perpe-trated in the occupied Soviet territories, the tribunals paid particular attention to the Holocaust, especially in areas with substantial prewar Jewish populations.
