Talk:Kommunarka shooting ground

Requested move 31 August 2019

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The result of the move request was: page moved to Kommunarka shooting ground. (non-admin closure) Steel1943  (talk) 16:50, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Komunarka shooting ground → ? – I found it odd that Коммунарка was rendered as Communarka in English, so I moved the page, but then I get even more confused, because I realised the vast amount of versions for the name in English. Komunarka shooting ground, Kommunarka shooting ground, Communarka shooting ground, Comunarka shooting ground or maybe something entirely different (e.g. Kommunarka Polygon or Kommunarka Shooting Range) Turaids (talk) 15:45, 31 August 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:10, 9 September 2019 (UTC)


 * It should be Kommunarka per WP:RUS--Ymblanter (talk) 19:06, 9 September 2019 (UTC)


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Execution and / or Burial site?
A great number of sites through the length and breadth of Russia can be accurately described as Execution and Burial sites (see [Russia's Necropolis 2016]). They are the classic killing fields of the Great Terror (1937-1938).

It is important, therefore, to note that many other sites were for Burial only. The victims were shot elsewhere, e.g. the local or regional NKVD headquarters, and then transported to the already prepared burial site. This distinction is confused by the popular euphemistic term adopted in the late 1930s for such areas: after setting aside such large plots and surrounding them with fencing, sentries and barbed wire the NKVD would tell locals that these were new "firing ranges".

Something, therefore, should be done with the title of this piece -- and that of the companion item about Butovo. Rustat99 (talk) 04:09, 5 December 2021 (UTC)