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November 3, 2012

Rivers of blood in Moscow: Spatial distribution of executions in Stalin’s Moscow

The Great Purge personified Even though lump evidence of crimes committed by the Communist regime in Russia
has been uncovered in the last two and a half decades all but none attention was paid to spatial analysis of executions in major cities. The Memorial Society’s database of purges of Moscow residents in 1930s-50s enables me to map victims on a house-by-house level of detail. Below is the map. Each dot is clickable and denotes at least one person, totaling 11,170 people. -- Rivers of blood in Moscow: The Great Purge personified
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CLICKABLE MAP IS HERE

Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 3, 2012 9:09 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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