DISINFO: Finns organised mass shootings of Soviet soldiers in Sandarmokh, Karelia
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DISINFO: Finns organised mass shootings of Soviet soldiers in Sandarmokh, Karelia

SUMMARY

Finns organised mass shootings of Soviet soldiers in Sandarmokh, Karelia, during WWII.

RESPONSE

No evidence given. Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation on Sandarmokh and Finland starting from 2016. m.tvzvezda.ru/news/qhistory/content/201608040821-ge82.htm?utm_source=m.tvzvezda&utm_medium=pagelinks&utm_campaign=newslink&utm_term=v1, 7000-9000 victims of Stalin's terror were executed in Sandarmokh in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, 1937-1938. Hundreds of monuments have been erected in Sandarmokh to commemorate the victims. Beginning 2016, a disinformation message started being spread that among the dead were Soviet prisoners of war shot by invading Finns during 1941-44. The mass graves were discovered by historian Yury Dmitriev in 1997, now facing questionable accusations and dubious charges. eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/47471/statement-cases-russian-human-rights-defenders-oyub-titiev-and-yuri-dmitriev_en, www.thetimes.co.uk/article/yury-dmitriev-historian-of-stalin-s-purges-charged-with-sexual-abuse-59jgjdct0, According to Finnish and many Russian historians and Dmitriev himself, the Finns could not know the location of the mass graves during the war. Soviet POWs is a thoroughly studied topic in Finland, the archives are open for the historians and they do not give any evidence for the version stated above, Finnish embassy in Moscow said. www.kommersant.ru/doc/3736739, 1,200 POWs out of all Soviet servicemen who died while imprisoned in Finnish camps were shot. Nothing suggests that the shot POWs would have any connection to Sandarmokh. Read more in journalist Anna Yarovaya's thorough report: therussianreader.com/2017/12/29/anna-yarovaya-rewriting-sandarmokh/,

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