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Bolshevik mass grave found in St Petersburg

Archeologists have uncovered the site of Bolshevik-era executions and mass graves at St Petersburg's Peter and Paul Fortress.

The remains of over 80 bodies were found shot through the head in six mass graves dating to after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

The graves were discovered when archeological digs began this summer in Russia amid restoration work, said Dmitry Masliakov, museum spokesman....
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)