Russia Political Repression Victims Commemoration Day

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Russia Political Repression Victims Commemoration Day

Metropolitan Pavel of Krutitsy and Kolomna, foreground centre, is seen after the Liturgy and a memorial service during events marking the Commemoration Day of Victims of Political Repression in the stone church of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in the Butovo, Moscow region, Russia. Butovo was used for mass executions and mass graves during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, with 20,762 prisoners of various nationalities documented as being transported to the site and executed by the Soviet secret police.

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Russia Political Repression Victims Commemoration Day

Metropolitan Pavel of Krutitsy and Kolomna, centre, is seen after the Liturgy and a memorial service during events marking the Commemoration Day of Victims of Political Repression in the stone church of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in the Butovo, Moscow region, Russia. Butovo was used for mass executions and mass graves during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, with 20,762 prisoners of various nationalities documented as being transported to the site and executed by the Soviet secret police.

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Russia Political Repression Victims Commemoration Day

Metropolitan Pavel of Krutitsy and Kolomna conducts the Liturgy and a memorial service during events marking the Commemoration Day of Victims of Political Repression in the stone church of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in the Butovo, Moscow region, Russia. Butovo was used for mass executions and mass graves during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, with 20,762 prisoners of various nationalities documented as being transported to the site and executed by the Soviet secret police.

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Russia Political Repression Victims Commemoration Day

Metropolitan Pavel of Krutitsy and Kolomna conducts the Liturgy and a memorial service during events marking the Commemoration Day of Victims of Political Repression in the stone church of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in the Butovo, Moscow region, Russia. Butovo was used for mass executions and mass graves during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, with 20,762 prisoners of various nationalities documented as being transported to the site and executed by the Soviet secret police.

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Russia Political Repression Victims Commemoration Day

A woman lights a candle during the Liturgy and a memorial service held by Metropolitan Pavel of Krutitsy and Kolomna during events marking the Commemoration Day of Victims of Political Repression in the stone church of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in the Butovo, Moscow region, Russia. Butovo was used for mass executions and mass graves during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, with 20,762 prisoners of various nationalities documented as being transported to the site and executed by the Soviet secret police.

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Russia Political Repression Victims Commemoration Day

Believers attend the Liturgy and a memorial service held by Metropolitan Pavel of Krutitsy and Kolomna during events marking the Commemoration Day of Victims of Political Repression in the stone church of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in the Butovo, Moscow region, Russia. Butovo was used for mass executions and mass graves during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, with 20,762 prisoners of various nationalities documented as being transported to the site and executed by the Soviet secret police.

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Russia Political Repression Victims Commemoration Day

Metropolitan Pavel of Krutitsy and Kolomna conducts the Liturgy and a memorial service during events marking the Commemoration Day of Victims of Political Repression in the stone church of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in the Butovo, Moscow region, Russia. Butovo was used for mass executions and mass graves during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, with 20,762 prisoners of various nationalities documented as being transported to the site and executed by the Soviet secret police.

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