Babi Yar is a ravine in the outskirts of Kiev. In 1941, 34,000 jews were massacred in one of the many "genocide by bullets" in the Eastern Front.

On 19 September 1941, the German army with the help of the Einsatzgruppen entered Kiev as the Soviets were pushed out
This was the order issued by the Einsatzgruppen asking Jews to report to a street in Kiev and asking them to bring their valuables and jewels.
All the rumors you hear:
a)Soviets greeted the Nazis as liberators: Mostly false.
b)City dwellers are the collaborators!
The Bandera members were working with the Nazis.
The Fascists also take away people's property...
It was horrific.
It's very blurry but it looks like shooting en masse.
Members of in Einsatzgruppen C a few days before the Babi Yar Massacre.
German Soldiers sorting out the valuables amongst the dead...
Soviet Prisoners were forced to bury their dead neighbors while the Nazis supervised them.
Soviet prisoners forced to do slave labor.
Bodies of dead soviet prisoners of war are left in the city to rot.
And guess where these Einsatzgruppen members ended up.....
Lyudmilla Pavlichenko was one of the fiercest anti-fascist fighter from Ukraine!
The amount of bloodshed that was witnessed is horrifying.
I witnessed a picture entitled "remains of soviet citizens in Babi Yar"

It is too triggering to show here without a way of marking it.
Also, remember how some of these perpetrators ended up in Canada https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassyC/status/1151539233326280704?s=20
Just see if the PM of Canada has a statement to make on the Babi Yar massacre.
If communism killed millions where are the mass graves?

We clearly see them when fascism kills millions.
Wow
Interesting no one talks about fascist confiscation of property to enrich the wealthy.
One never hears of the millions of Soviet Citizens shipped to Germany for slave labor.
World war 2 alliances were so fluid..it was frightening
That's 10% of Ukraine. The population of Ukraine in 1941 was about 41 million.
Nazis had to enact ghastly measures to "gain compliance"of the population.
Just wanton execution on the streets.

It was utter terror with no restraint.
So much of the eastern campaign was wanton cruelty?
Compare what US did in Iraq.
In 1942, there were so many dead bodies,it contaminated the groundwater.
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