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Echoes of Starobilsk Camp: Ukraine’s Reckoning With a Soviet Crime

The Starobilsk camp, originally a Ukrainian Orthodox monastery in the Luhansk region, was repurposed by the Soviet NKVD in 1939 to imprison nearly 3,900 Polish officers under brutal conditions. Today, it stands as a site of profound historical significance for both Poles and Ukrainians.

Starobilsk monastery

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