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Archeologists Find New Pits at Stalin-Era Moscow Mass Grave May 21, 2021 Archeologists have discovered 47 additional pits at the site of the Kommunarka firing range, bringing the total to 134. New Moscow Forum / new.msk.ru Dozens of new pits have been discovered in a notorious Stalin-era execution site outside Moscow where more than 10,000 political dissidents are believed to be buried, the Kommersant business daily reported Thursday. The existence of the mass grave in southwestern Moscow’s district of Kommunarka became known when the KGB opened its archives, before abruptly closing them, in the last days of the Soviet Union. Its successor, Russia s FSB, estimates that up to 14,000 people were shot and thrown into mass graves at the Kommunarka firing range between 1937-1941.

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