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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.
In 2004, Vassili Kononov, a Soviet partisan during World War II, was convicted by Supreme Court of Latvia as a war criminal for killing three women, one of whom was pregnant. [230] [231] He is the only former Soviet partisan convicted of crimes against humanity. [232] The sentence was condemned by various high-ranking Russian officials. [233]
The commander of one of the platoons of 118th Schutzmannschaft Battalion, former Soviet junior lieutenant Vasyl Meleshko, was tried in a Soviet court and executed in 1975. The chief of staff of 118th Schutzmannschaft Battalion, former Red Army senior lieutenant Hryhoriy Vasiura , was tried in Minsk in 1986 and found guilty of all his crimes.
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]
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 ...
Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev (Russian: Васи́лий Григо́рьевич За́йцев, IPA: [vɐˈsʲilʲɪj ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲjɪvʲɪdʑ ˈzajtsɨf]; 23 March 1915 – 15 December 1991) was a Soviet sniper during World War II. Between 22 September 1942 and 19 October 1942, he killed 40 enemy soldiers. [1]
[43] [44] It was one of the costliest battles of the Second World War, [45] [46] [47] [44] [48] the single deadliest armoured battle in history, [49] and the opening day of the battle, 5 July, was the single costliest day in the history of aerial warfare in terms of aircraft shot down.