Officials Say Mass Grave May Show Massacre
UKRAINE
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Builders at a Ukrainian monastery have unearthed about 130 skeletons, prompting officials to speculate that they stumbled on evidence of a massacre by Soviet secret police after World War II.
The remains, some of children, were found under the floor in the monastery in western Ukraine that was once used by the Greek Catholic Church, banned by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in 1946.
“These people were buried so secretly that even the locals did not know they were in the monastery. It looks like entire families were killed,” said Evhen Yanushevych of the Zhovkva regional administration.
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