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Zalishchyky 4-5 July 1941 tragedy: Sadistic execution by the NKVD of Ukraine political prisoners by burning alive in the cattle wagons.

On July 4 and 5 1941 the NKVD officers sadistically dozed all 14 cattle wagons of the train in Zalishchyky, Ukraine, with petrol and set alight, burning alive all the political prisoners inside. Later, the burnt cattle wagons, were thrown…