<P> Stalin committed a very grave crime against the Communist party, the socialist state, Soviet people and worldwide revolutionary movement...Together with Stalin, the responsibility for the abuse of law, mass unwarranted repressions and death of many thousands of wholly innocent people also lies on Molotov, Kaganovich, Malenkov...</P> <P> Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, numerous mass graves filled with executed victims of the terror were discovered . Some, such as the killing fields at Kurapaty near Minsk and Bykivnia near Kiev, are believed to contain up to 200,000 corpses . </P> <P> In 2007, one such site, the Butovo firing range near Moscow, was turned into a shrine to the victims of Stalinism . Between August 1937 and October 1938, more than 20,000 people were shot and buried there . </P> <Ul> <Li> <P> Kuropaty mass grave site near Minsk, Belarus </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Memorial cemetery Krasny Bor near Petrozavodsk, Russia </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Memorial to Polish victims of Stalinist repression, Tomsk, Russia </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Monument to victims of political repressions in Donetsk, Ukraine </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Memorial to victims of Stalinist repression in Tomsk, Russia </P> </Li> </Ul>

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