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Originally Posted by kranz
A few days ago I saw a documentary about russian mothers who lost their sons at Lubiansk, Donetsk. At least 80 funerals took place at one time in Pskov (Russia) around August. Those who died were the soldiers of this unit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/76th_Gu...sault_Division
Mothers were paid not to talk about their losses, foreign journalists trying to visit the graves are treated as trespassers and beaten up. |
Just curious, where did you get the number of 80? I followed that story (beatings and slashed tires and all), and I think the highest number I ever heard was 5. I don't know about foreign reports, but Russian activists trying to uncover that story ended up with no more than two dozen graves and names (and probably as many black eyes, slashed tires, and death threats) that they'd located in all of Russia in August.
There were as many as 80 casualties reported in that unit, but the word is they were buried mostly in the Ukraine to avoid the word spreading out.