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During World War II, the Soviet Union committed various atrocities against prisoners of war (POWs). These actions were carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) and the Red Army. In some cases, the crimes were sanctioned or directly ordered by Joseph Stalin and the Soviet leadership.
Soviet civilians were shot and burned alive by the German Army. [6] [7] Krasukha massacre 27 November 1943 Krasukha , Pskov Oblast: 280 Soviet civilians were burned alive by the German Army. [8] Novocherkassk massacre: 2 June 1962 Novocherkassk: 26 (officially) Soviet massacre of rallying unarmed civilians.
Overall, two helicopters were confirmed to have been shot down, [28] including one Ka-52 whose two pilots ejected. [29] [10] As the Russian formation approached Hostomel, it was hidden by a thick, low cloud cover, meaning that the airport garrison only discovered them when hearing their rotor blades. However, the local soldiers had been warned ...
Dead Soviet civilians near Minsk, Belarus, 1943 Kiev, 23 June 1941 A victim of starvation in besieged Leningrad suffering from muscle atrophy in 1941. World War II losses of the Soviet Union were about 27 million both civilian and military from all war-related causes, [1] although exact figures are disputed. A figure of 20 million was ...
Simferopol: on October 31, the NKVD shot a number of people in the NKVD building and the city prison. Yalta: on November 4, the NKVD shot all the prisoners in the city prisons. [7] Zolochiv massacre (Złoczów in pre-war Poland): in the last days of June 1941 the Soviets executed all inmates at Zolochiv prison, an estimated 650 to 720 individuals.
General Müller declared that, in the war against the Soviet Union, any Soviet civilian who was felt to be hindering the German war effort was to be regarded as a "guerrilla" and shot on the spot. The Army's Chief of Staff, General Franz Halder , declared in a directive that in the event of guerrilla attacks, German troops were to impose ...
The Soviet general Viktor Matsulenko deemed the battle to be the "beginning of a basic turning point not just in the course of the Great Patriotic War, but for the entire World War II" and that the battle was the "most important military-political event of World War II". [319]
On July 28, 2022, a video was posted on a Russian Telegram page showing a Russian soldier torturing and castrating a Ukrainian prisoner of war. The identity of the victim is unclear through the video; however, the video is shot in high-quality footage and features extreme themes of violence throughout.