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Claim: Soviet soldiers were executed by Finns in Sandarmokh
2018-09-10
The area being discussed was occupied by Finnish soldiers during WWII.
Sandarmokh forest was considered a Memorial site for how a number of political prisoners were executed in 1937. Now Russians are saying it wasn't political prisoners who perished in 1937, but Soviet soldiers at the hands of the Finns.

You can see a short video at this link.


The Russian military-historical society conducted excavations in the tract Sandarmokh. As a result of the excavations, the remains of the Red Army were found. And, apparently, the RKKA soldier was shot by the Finns.

As a result of this information, a loud squeal was raised by the liberal media and, of course, by the false organization "Memorial", which the historical facts on the results of excavations in the tract of Sandarmokh thoroughly break "evidence" about the bloody Stalin, the mass executions of the NKVD.

As a result of the excavations it was determined that all the Soviet soldiers found had a bullet hole at the back of the head. His hands were tied behind his back.

Do not lag behind the false "Memorial" and the Finnish "scientists". Evidence from Finnish scientists is just highly likely: "Finns do not shoot like this, it's the style of the NKVD. If in Finland the lawful execution of a prisoner of war was carried out, he looked at the shooter in the face.

Illegal shooting was usually carried out in this way: a prisoner of war was shot in the back and said that he tried, for example, to escape, "says Antti Kujala, assistant professor of Helsinki University.

September 7 in the press center of the MIA "Russia" held a press conference of the RIOO on the results of excavations in the tract Sandarmokh. And this overexcited the Russian liberals and their Western patrons to the extreme. According to the liberal media and the false organization "Memorial", the tract Sandarmokh is the place of NKVD executions.

At the same time, the liberals diligently try to get around the fact that the Karelian-Finnish SSR was occupied by the Finnish army and parts of the German Wehrmacht in 1941-1944. The Finnish troops were defeated in Karelia only in the summer of 1944 as a result of the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk operation.

How during this period the NKVD shot the Red Army soldiers in the territory controlled by the Wehrmacht and the Finnish troops, the "Memorial" defenders prefer not to explain.

But they tried to organize an information campaign against the excavations themselves, so that the unpleasant liberals would not open historical and archaeological evidence. It even went so far that the liberals bribed the relatives of the deceased to appeal to the authorities and government against the excavations.

Lying and juggling, which the false organization "Memorial" has been practicing since 1989, gradually disintegrate. The lies of Solzhenitsyn and the like go away in the past.

And therefore, it is not surprising that liberals are in collective hysteria. They have less and less strength. And why? Because the power is in truth, as the main character of the movie "Brother-2" Danil Bagrov said. Who has the truth - he is stronger. And no grants, no "highly likely" Western patrons false advocates will not help.
Dmitry Dzygobrodsky

PS: We must understand that since 1997 in this tract the excavations were carried out by Russian grantees financed from abroad, who consciously distorted the history according to the wishes of foreign customers. In the years of rampant Yeltsin's kleptocracy, the state did not care until the truth about mass graves in the Sandarmokh tract was established. But it was worthwhile to take this case seriously and to conduct the first examinations, as it immediately became clear - grantees for more than 20 years lied about the fact that in the tract lie the victims of the so-called. "political repression." In fact, it turned out - victims of war crimes of Hitler's Finnish allies. Hence the cries of liberals-foreign agents, and the subsequent dirty fuss to induce the relatives of the victims to prohibit further excavations in order to hide the truth and leave a canonical lie.
Posted by:badanov

#5  I think the subtext here is that Russian historians and academics are being very frank about the Russian/Soviet past, and in so doing are insisting that the historical record reflect the truth, not just what western academics say it is.

You'll read in the text a direct reference to Solzhenitsyn, whom many Russians claim flat out lied about the Soviet historical record. It is worth pointing out that a tiny fraction of Solzhenitsyn's works have been translated into English, and I s'pect there's a very good reason for that.

Most of you probably missed it, but also there is a subtle reference to the Soviet journalist Vasily Grossman, a personal favorite Russian writer, who did suffer greatly under the Soviets for his written works.

As I have said this on Facebook, but some amazing, positive things are happening in Russia, and this bit of research is part of the cost of moving those things forward.
Posted by: badanov   2018-09-10 21:22  

#4  Shtrafbat.
Posted by: charger   2018-09-10 20:28  

#3  Russian soldiers executed by their officers for 'failing to be courageous enough?'
Posted by: Glenmore   2018-09-10 13:21  

#2  Katyn Forest
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-09-10 07:25  

#1  ...When the Soviets Russians want to do something, they will find any excuse to do it. This sounds like one of those excuses.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2018-09-10 05:33  

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