Prizonieri de război omorâți în lagărele din URSS
War prisoners killed in the camps of the USSR

Summary/Abstract: Within the article, the author refers to the situation of war prisoners held in camps in the USSR. Thus, based on the existing bibliographic sources, as well as declassified archival materials, it is found that in addition to the killed prisoners, a large number of them died due to injuries, diseases, inhuman conditions of detention, exploitation at grueling work, malnutrition, lack of warm clothes, dystrophy, hypothermia, etc. Soviet officers demonstrated brutal behavior towards prisoners, consumed alcoholic beverages and committed murders. There was a time when such crimes were encouraged by the political elite. In most cases, the informative notes did not report the real situation but presented the facts distortedly. Under these conditions, no expert examinations were carried out and the cases were not investigated according to the requirements, and in this way the abuses committed by the repressive bodies, the flagrant violations of the norms of international law were hidden.

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