Special Envoy to Ivano-frankivsk
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On the outskirts of the western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk, stands a small memorial surrounded by five crosses, commemorating terrible crimes. Those perpetrated by the Soviet political police NKVD in the summer of 1941 against the Ukrainian population, while Hitler's army was preparing to invade the USSR and in particular Ukrainian Galicia, which had belonged to Poland until 1939.
On the outskirts of the western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk, stands a small memorial surrounded by five crosses, commemorating terrible crimes. Laure Mandeville / Le Figaro
In a former wooded gorge called Demianiv Laz, the Soviet secret police NKVD, which had taken up residence in the city after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 and the annexation of western Ukraine, brutally tortured and murdered hundreds of Ukrainians before throwing them into mass graves. "Like today, they were looking to eradicate Ukrainian culture. As soon as they arrived in 1939, they began arresting all nationalist activists, all members of the Ukrainian cultural intelligentsia, priests... They were taking...
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