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Soviet war crimes. From 1917 to 1991, a multitude of war crimes and crimes against humanity were carried out by the Soviet Union or any of its Soviet republics, including the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and its armed forces. They include acts which were committed by the Red Army (later called the Soviet Army) as well as acts ...
Nationwide. 100,000 [3] – 1,300,000 [4] For the purposes of political repression and elimination of opposition to Bolshevik rule. Tambov Rebellion. 19 August 1920 – June 1921. Tambov Governorate. 15,000+ (figure of deaths due to execution only) Total of 240,000 [5] rebels and civilians killed by communist forces.
Russian war crimes are violations of international criminal law including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide [1] which the official armed and paramilitary forces of Russia have been accused of committing since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
27,000 Jews and other Soviet Civilians. Organized by Nazi forces; part of the Holocaust in Russia [7] Nizhny Chir massacre [ ru] 2 September 1942. Nizhny Chir, Stalingrad Oblast. 47. Killing of 47 children with intellectual disabilities organized by Nazi forces [8] [9] Bolshoye Zarechye massacre [ ru] 30 October 1943.
When the Allies of World War II founded the post-war International Military Tribunal to examine war crimes committed during the conflict by Nazi Germany, with officials from the Soviet Union taking an active part in the judicial processes, there was no examination of the Allied forces' actions and no charges were ever brought against their ...
the Nemmersdorf massacre: mass murder and rape of ~74 German citizens (as well as ~50 French and Belgian POWs) by the Red Army's 2nd Guards Tank Corps. the Treuenbritzen massacre: mass murder and rape of German citizens by Soviet soldiers. the Massacre of Broniki: mass murder of 153 German POWs by Soviet soldiers.
Tambov Rebellion. Tartu Credit Center Massacre. Categories: War crimes committed by country. Wars involving the Soviet Union. Russian war crimes. Wars involving Soviet Russia (1917–1922) Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
The NKVD prisoner massacres were a series of mass executions of political prisoners carried out by the NKVD, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union, across Eastern Europe, primarily in Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic states and Bessarabia. After the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, NKVD ...