When the German army launched Operation Barbarossa against the USSR on June 22, 1941, the NKVD troops (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs) were ordered to evacuate Ukrainian political prisoners into the interior of the Soviet Union. However, time was lacking, the Red Army was in full retreat, transportation and other supplies were insufficient, so the NKVD swept aside all legal procedures and proceeded with mass executions of as many political prisoners as possible.
EuroMaidan Press: Ukrainian women executed by the NKVD in Dubno prison
This archive photo shows Vira Zaborovska from the village of Svyattia, Rivne Oblast.
