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Stewart, John F., et al. The Crime of Moscow in Vynnytsia ; “Translated by M.O. from Ukrainian Publication of the Ukrainian American Youth Association, Inc. (printed in USA, New York, 1951)”. Edinburgh: Scottish League for European Freedom, 1952. pp. 32. 8vo., measuring 22 cm. Strikingly illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers. Six unnumbered photographic plates documenting in harrowing detail the violent deaths, exhumations, and examinations of the victims of the Soviet-perpetrated massacare over the course of 1937-38. Lightest edgewear, one very short closed tear to the margin of the rear cover. Single unobtrusive circular institutional stamp the centre of the title page, contents otherwise without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked leaves and firm, sound stapled binding; very good. Corresponds to OCLC #8016248. Rare in commerce. Card Covers. The Vinnytsia massacre was “a series of executions of thousands of citizens of the city of Vinnytsia and its surrounding area, perpetrated in 1937-8 by the NKVD during the Yezhov terror. The massacre was not the only action of its kind; many were carried out by the Soviet state security in prisons throughout the Ukrainian SSR. But the Vinnytsia massacre gained particular notoriety because of the extent to which it was made public. In an attempt to discredit the previous Soviet regime by highlighting the atrocities it had perpetrated, the German occupational forces, following the lead of eyewitnesses, exhumed the bodies of the massacre’s victims between May and July 1943. To supplement the examinations made by German and Ukrainian doctors, the German authorities invited an international commission of medical experts to investigate the corpses found in 66 mass graves in the Vinnytsia area. Forensic scientists from Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Holland, Romania, Sweden, and Slovakia participated in July 1943.” [Source; The Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved: November, 2023]. (#6688) $125.00
