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Chodschali
On February 26, 1992, the Armenian occupying forces annihi­
lated the little town o f Chodschali in collaboration with former
Soviet units. This atrocity is reminiscent o f the fate o f the vil­
lage o f Nemmersdorf in East Prussia in October 1944, when
Red Army forces massacred the whole population o f the village
in a matter o f hours, provoking a mass flight from the neigh­
bourhood. But it would go beyond the bounds o f the present list
o f atrocities to include pictures o f Nemmersdorf taken when
the village was taken back shortly afterwards.
1929 « Kulaks D^spoescd
The most terrible event o f the inter-war years was without
doubt the campaign conducted by by M essrs Lenin, Stalin and
B erija to extinguish the Ukrainian people's spirit o f resistance
entirely. B y means o f a hunger blockade they were very large­
ly successful in achieving their aim.
The relatively prosperous and independent peasants of
the Ukraine were called "kulaks" and were regarded as
"capitalists" within a Communist state. They strongly
resisted the collectivization o f their holdings, but the
Communists used even more brutal measures to enforce
their programme. Whole villages were compelled, by
force o f arms, to accept the collectivization o f their hold­
ings. Some 2 million kulaks with their families - perhaps
8 million people altogether - were driven from their
homes, with many being killed in the process. Many
starved to death and many more ended up in Siberia. In
the period 1918-1929, the Communists killed about 10-
15 million people who resisted, excluding those who died
from starvation and so on.
And the Soviets committed similar atrocities in the Baltic
states.
1941, Lithuania, Rainiai: The communists butchered anyone
who they thought might resist M arxist teaching. However,
nobody has yet been held responsible, nor has anyone been sen­
tenced for crimes against humanity.
It is well known that the Soviet regime was responsible
for mass murders o f Poles and Ukrainians and for the
annihilation o f the Azerbaijani intellectual elite and that
o f other "minority" peoples. However, the regime's bru­
tality became even clearer on the discovery o f the mass
graves at Katyn.
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