Photos of the Day for May 9, 2020

Memorial site to victims murdered by the Soviet NKVD in 1937-1941, Kurapaty (Mjensk) 2019.

Курапаты 2019.

 

 

Memorial stone with correct dates of NKVD murders (1937-41); odious efforts, official and unofficial, persist by adherents of Stalinism to impose the lie that it was the Germans who carried out the mass murders after occupying Mjensk in 1941.

Помнік ахвярам НКУСу з правільнымі датамі забойстваў (1937-41 гг.).

 

 

 

 

Allee of Crosses.

Алея крыжоў.

 

 

 

 

Two-leaf squill flowers (scilla bifolia), known locally as kurapaty.

Курапаты (белыя пралескі).

 

 

 

 

Crosses erected in memory of individual Poles and Belarusians murdered at Kurapaty.

Крыжы асобным ахвярам.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cross in Memory of Vatslau Lastouski (1883-1938) — a Belarusian patriot involved in the national revival, writer, ethnographer, photographer — imprisoned and executed by the Soviet apparat in Saratov, Russia.  The cross was vandalized in March 2020.

Крыж-помнік Вацлаву Ластоўскаму (1883-1938 гг.).

 

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