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500 shot in Stalin cops' mass grave

A mass grave has been unearthed by Russian motorway builders.

Experts believe the estimated 500 victims - including children - were shot in the back of the head by dictator Josef Stalin's secret police in the 1930s.

Instead of being taken to work camps, victims were executed at the tree-shrouded site near Vladivostok....

Read entire article at Mirror (UK)