Thousands of Ukrainians were shot by the Russians immediately before retreating from Ukrainian cities – Kyiv, Chernihiv, Katerynoslav.
Mass, brutal extermination of the Ukrainian population occurred in Odesa and the Crimea. On the peninsula, 12,000 were killed in the first few days of the occupation in 1921.
Witnesses of the terror noted that along the central streets of Sevastopol, corpses were hanging from almost every post. Among the tens of thousands of victims were 500 sailors, whom the Russians killed for loading evacuation ships. In most Crimean cities, people were tortured, shot, hanged, and drowned at sea.
The Crimea experienced two waves of terror – 1917-1918 and 1921. According to experts, the total number of victims of the Crimean terror reaches 150 thousand people. Among the intelligentsia, one in three survived…
Numerous memories have been preserved about what happened in Russian torture chambers in Ukraine and what they looked like.
“In Kharkov, they resorted to the “glove game”: the victim’s hands were scalded with boiling water until the epidermis separated, leaving the bloody flesh exposed. And the executioners received a pair of gloves made of human skin. In Tsarytsyn, the victims’ bones were sawed off, and in Voronezh, the naked ones were stuffed into barrels lined with nails inside…”
“A large room and a pool in the middle. Before, goldfish swam in it…Now this pool is filled with thick human blood. There are hooks all over the walls of the room, on these hooks, like in butcher shops, human corpses are hanging… mutilated…”
It is impossible to briefly mention all Russian crimes during the military aggression in Ukraine in 1917-1921. The fact remains that Russia killed millions of Ukrainians through military actions, terror, famine, and epidemics that resulted from all these actions.
Ukraine was occupied and annexed to Russia under the name of the Ukrainian SSR. As a result, tens of millions of Ukrainians will become new victims.
As in other so-called “republics” of the USSR created in the occupied territories, the Ukrainian SSR government was under total control of Moscow until the partial collapse of the empire in 1989-1991.
The executioners, who led the punitive bodies, subjected people to torture and directly participated in executions, received the highest awards and honorary titles. Some of them became victims of new waves of terror, but most of the direct executors lived to old age and were buried with honors as heroes.
