On
this date, September 17, 1939, the Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during
the Polish Defensive War
of 1939. I will post information about the NKVD Prisoner Massacres from
Wikipedia.
NKVD
prisoner massacres
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Date
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June 1941 - November 1941
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Location
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Type
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Participants
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NKVD and NKGB (united 20 July
1941)
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Deaths
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In excess of 100,000
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The
NKVD prisoner massacres were a series of mass executions carried out by
the Soviet NKVD secret police during World War
II against political prisoners across Eastern Europe, primarily Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic states, Bessarabia and other parts of the Soviet
Union from which the Red Army was retreating
following the Nazi German
attack on the Soviet positions in occupied
Poland, known as Operation
Barbarossa.
Estimates
of the death toll vary between locations; nearly 9,000 in the Ukrainian SSR, 20,000–30,000 in
eastern Poland (now part of Western Ukraine), with the total number
reaching approximately 100,000 victims of extrajudicial executions in the span
of a few short weeks.
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