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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
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.
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Founded in 1770 as a Cossack village, it has been known as the stanitsa of Yemanzhelinskaya (Еманжелинская) since 1866.[citation needed] It became a coal mining settlement in 1930–1931, which was granted town status on September 25, 1951.[citation needed] It was one of the places closest to the hypocenter of the blast from the 2013 Russian meteor e...
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Yemanzhelinsk serves as the administrative center of Yemanzhelinsky District. As an administrative division, it is, together with three rural localities, incorporated within Yemanzhelinsky District as the Town of Yemanzhelinsk. As a municipal division, the Town of Yemanzhelinsk is incorporated withi...
Leontii Voitovych (b. 1951), modern Ukrainianacademic historianSources
1. Законодательное Собрание Челябинской области. Постановление №161 от 25 мая 2006 г. «Об утверждении перечня муниципальных образований (административно-территориальных единиц) Челябинской области и населённых пунктов, входящих в их состав», в ред. Постановления №2255 от 23 октября 2014 г. «О внесении изменений в перечень муниципальных образований (административно-территориальных единиц) Челябинской области и населённых пунктов, входящих в их состав». Вступил в силу со дня официального опубли...
Mar 14, 2008 · Resovietization of territories that were first annexed by the USSR in 1939-1940 after the Soviet-German pact, then occupied by Germany as of July 1941, begins in the autumn 1944 with a true pacification war when faced by resistance of Baltic and Ukrainian nationalist guerrillas.
Apr 25, 2022 · The Soviet Union attacked Poland without declaring war, violating several treaties it had signed with the Poles. For example, the Peace Treaty of 1921 and the Non-Aggression Pact between the USSR and Poland in 1932, which not long before the invasion was extended by both governments until 1945.
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.
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