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| Court recognizes Nazi crimes in Kalmykia as genocide |
| 2025-02-05 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The court recognized the crimes of the Nazis in Kalmykia during the Great Patriotic War as genocide of the Soviet people. This was reported on February 4 by the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia. Investigators, having studied the archives and carried out the necessary search activities, reconstructed the picture of the atrocities of the German invaders in the region. During the war, the fascists shelled and bombed settlements of the Kalmyk ASSR, set fire to crops and prevented harvesting. During the occupation, thousands of buildings and structures were destroyed. The Germans inflicted the most significant damage on the city of Elista. Eyewitness accounts confirmed that "Punitive Expeditions" were operating in rural areas with the aim of reprisals against the local population. On the day of the capture of the Sarpinsky District, in one of the villages the occupiers hanged a civilian on the gate of a residential building, threatening to shoot anyone who tried to remove the body of the murdered man. The able-bodied population of the Kalmyk ASSR was driven into slavery. Investigators found a letter from one of the young men, in which he wrote about long-term work without a break under the supervision of German soldiers. “The evidence collected by the investigation and the established facts indicate that all these crimes were aimed at exterminating the civilian population not only of individual settlements and regions, but of the entire Soviet people,” the department’s Telegram channel stated. The court found the evidence sufficient to establish the fact of genocide of the peoples of the USSR by the Nazi invaders. As reported by the Regnum news agency, in September last year the Tula Regional Court recognized the actions of the fascists against the region's civilian population during the Great Patriotic War as genocide of the Soviet people. As a result of the trial, it was revealed that at least 15,000 people suffered at the hands of the Nazis. The actions against the Soviet people were part of a German plan, according to which the region's civilians had to be expelled for further colonization of the territory by the Germans. |
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