Post by peterd on Aug 6, 2013 6:36:34 GMT -8
Moscow’s Killing Fields: Inside a Stalinist Execution Site
MOSCOW, August 6 (Joy Neumeyer, The Moscow News) – On the southern fringes of Moscow, across from the sprawling offices of Russia’s natural gas giant Gazprom, there is a forest. It is quiet, full of mushrooms and dead leaves. The only people usually there are a pair of monks, who live by a church built on the property.
The forest is part of a village known as Kommunarka, a pre-revolutionary estate turned collective farm, and recently absorbed into Moscow's expanded city limits. In the mid-1930s, part of the land became the dacha of secret police chief Genrikh Yagoda, the man who would ignite Stalin's Terror (and later burn in it himself).
en.rian.ru/russia/20130806/182605744/Moscows-Killing-Fields-Inside-a-Stalinist-Execution-Site.html
MOSCOW, August 6 (Joy Neumeyer, The Moscow News) – On the southern fringes of Moscow, across from the sprawling offices of Russia’s natural gas giant Gazprom, there is a forest. It is quiet, full of mushrooms and dead leaves. The only people usually there are a pair of monks, who live by a church built on the property.
The forest is part of a village known as Kommunarka, a pre-revolutionary estate turned collective farm, and recently absorbed into Moscow's expanded city limits. In the mid-1930s, part of the land became the dacha of secret police chief Genrikh Yagoda, the man who would ignite Stalin's Terror (and later burn in it himself).
en.rian.ru/russia/20130806/182605744/Moscows-Killing-Fields-Inside-a-Stalinist-Execution-Site.html