Kiev, homage to the 1930s famine victims monument (Ansa)
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August 25, 2021 About thirty mass graves with the remains of thousands of people massacred in the Stalinist purges of the 1930s have been discovered in Odessa: the Ukrainian authorities have announced.
At the moment, 29 pits have been found with the remains of at least five thousand people, in an area of five hectares near the airport, but excavation operations are still in progress.
According to the Ukrainian government, it will not be possible to proceed with the identification of the victims since the relevant registers are still classified and kept in Moscow; given the bad relations between the two countries, it is difficult for Russia to agree to hand them over.
According to the estimates of Ukrainian historians, the people executed or imprisoned in the purges of the 1930s would be hundreds of thousands, in addition to the millions of Ukrainians victims of the great famine of 1932-33, considered a "genocide" orchestrated by Stalin for repress all nationalist and independence ambitions.