Valdo Praust: On 8 July 1941, the Bolsheviks executed 193 innocent people in the Tartu prison.

We are publishing Valdo Praust Facebook’s post about the crimes against humanity committed by the NKVD death squads in Tartu prison over the innocent Estonians which were committed simply because the NKVD could, had power and lacked any moral brakes.

https://www.facebook.com/valdo.praust/posts/4531124430233704

Valdo Praust:

Today, 80 years ago, on 8 July 1941, 193 innocent people were executed in the Tartu prison by the Bolsheviks, who were contemplating retreat plans. The vast majority of them were random people whose Bolsheviks and their death squad minions had been arrested in or near Tartu since the outbreak of the Soviet-German War on 22 June, assuming their anti-Soviet sentiment or sympathy for the Germans. A lot of prisoners were evacuated to Russia, but the last ones left in prison were executed. In order to hide the bloodbath’s tracks, some were thrown into the well, while some were thrown into the courtyard of a prison buried shallow graves and thrown construction trash to hide the digging work. Essentially, the same thing was repeated as it had already happened in the earlier withdrawal of the Bolsheviks in the spring of 1919 in the Palermo Forest near Rakvere, in the basement of the Tartu Krediidikassa and elsewhere. The bloodbath of the Tartu Prison was the first massacre of the Bolsheviks of this scale in the summer of 1941, but unfortunately it was not the last – similar massacres were also carried out in the Sheel summer house in Pirita, Kuressaare Castle Garden and in smaller numbers in many other parts of Estonia. In 1990, a memorial plaque reminiscent of massacre was installed on the outer wall of the Tartu prison, but after renovating the building the new owners did not allow the plaque to be retained there (a great shame for them for trying to erase the tragic event of our history!) and moved to Antonius courtyard nearby. The right place for such a monument would, however, be by the street, a warning to current generations of what Communism looked like in its “known goodness”. In other words, this is the way how Communism’s ‘imaginator’ Karl Marx vision was put into practice in 1849, according to which those people and “human scum” who are preventing the propagation of Communism must disappear, i.e. they must be cleansed, according to Marx. On the photo – excavation and identification of the executed at the end of July 1941, the German time.