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Word: leninsk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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...mountain town of Leninsk-Kuznetski three ambitious agents of the NKVD (Commissariat for Home Affairs) and the acting city prosecutor, unable to fabricate cases against adult victims, took to arresting children for "Fascist terroristic activities." Scores were thrown into bedless, crawling cells along with common criminals and political prisoners. In their reports the purgers concealed the children's ages, passed them off as grown youths. Some of the child victims were shipped off to prisons in other cities, others were kept in Leninsk-Kuznetski and questioned night after night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Purgers Purged | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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