Starobelsk

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Starobelsk is a town near Luhansk in Ukraine. During WW2, it was the site of a Soviet prison camp for Polish POWs (Prisoners of War), especially officers. A very large proportion of the prisoners from the camp were massacred during the Katyn massacre in the Kharkiv NKVD building, later buried in Pyatikhatky forest .

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