Updated at 17:53,27-03-2024

Witness describes Stalin-era mass killings in Kurapaty

RFE/RL



Ninety-year-old Volha Barouskaya is the last known living witness to one of the atrocities of the Stalin era. As a girl, she stumbled on a mass killing of prisoners in the Kurapaty woods near Minsk, the site of thousands of executions by the Soviet secret police. (RFE/RL's Belarus Service)