Skeletons of WWII-era nuns murdered by Soviets unearthed in Poland

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Skeletons of WWII-era nuns murdered by Soviets unearthed in Poland

By Mindy Weisberger - Senior Writer a day ago

Religious objects, such as crucifixes and medallions, helped experts identify the victims.

Archaeologists recently unearthed the skeletons of three Catholic nuns who were murdered by Soviet soldiers at the end of World War II. Their discovery concludes a months-long search for the bones of seven nuns who were killed during the former Soviet Union's brutal occupation of the war-torn country.

Russia's Red Army invaded Poland in 1944, as Nazi Germany withdrew their soldiers. During that time, Soviet forces sought to seize control by suppressing Polish militia and religious figures, imprisoning, deporting and killing Polish soldiers, clergy and civilians. Records from 1945 documented Soviet soldiers slaughtering seven nuns in the order of St. Catherine of Alexandria, representatives of the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) told Live Science in an email.

To find out where these murdered nuns were buried, archaeologists first excavated a site in Gdańsk in July 2020, where they found the remains of Sister Charytyna (Jadwiga Fahl), according to a statement from the IPN. An excavation in Olsztyn in October revealed what are thought to be the remains of Sister Generosa (Maria Bolz), Sister Krzysztofora (Marta Klomfass) and Sister Liberia (Maria Domnik), all of whom were nurses at Olsztyn's St. Mary's Hospital.

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Originally published on Live Science.

[demosincebirth]

1. That's only the tip of the iceberg. Stalin was equal to Hitler in murdering

[gladium et scutum]

3. IMO Stalin far surpassed Hitler on the murder scale

Stalin's actions in the Soviet Union prior to WWII led to millions dying from famine, the gulag, political purges. etc.

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. He murdered a whole class of Russians. nt

[WarGamer]

15. correct, Stalin killed 100's of millions for decades.

[Blue_true]

17. Stalin is said to be responsible for the deaths of over 20 million people.

He also ran campaigns against Jewish people and Gypsies, but didn’t imprison and kill them on the scale that Hitler did.

Stalin was a flat out monster that should have had a docket at The Hague.

[MaryMagdaline]

2. What on earth was the motivation for this?

Poland resisted the Nazis. What was the source of this hatred?

[gladium et scutum]

4. Stalin

[Dem4Life1102]

5. Stalin wanted a pro-communist government

in Poland after the war so the red army wiped out any group who would oppose him.

[demosincebirth]

7. He trampled on the religious.

[pecosbob]

8. Any potential opposition, resistance or non-orthodoxy was ruthlessly eliminated.

The Soviets and Stalin personally would tolerate no opposition...ever. All religious, political and military organizations were ruthlessly eradicated.

Anyone interested in this period might find these links interesting. These two channels have a great series of unbiased videos that cover both the second world war and the holocaust.

World War Two
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP1AejCL4DA7jYkZAELRhHQ

Time Ghost History
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLfMmOriSyPbd5JhHpnj4Ng

[JI7]

9. Stalin wasn't just about being anti Nazi.

Anyone he saw as a threat to his power would be eliminated.

[pecosbob]

10. When the Soviet Union fell the Russians finally admitted to the Katyn Woods massacre

The Soviets invaded the eastern half of Poland when the Germans invaded from the West in 1939. The NKVD murdered ANYONE they considered a potential threat both then and when they returned in 1944 on their way to crush Germany.

A good example is the Polish Home Army and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The Soviet Army was prepared to move into the city and could have aided the groups vainly struggling to battle the Germans but they did not and so the uprising was crushed. The Soviets shortly after rolled through on their way to the Elbe.

The Nazis killed people for their ethnicity. The Soviets killed people for their thoughts.

We kill people for oil and KFC.

[obamanut2012]

11. Almost probably after they gang raped them

ugh.

[XanaDUer2]

12. I was thinking the same

women war prisoners are usually sexually assaulted.

[obamanut2012]

14. The Soviet military used rape as a systemic weapon against women

In areas they liberated, including Berlin. This included very little girls and very old ladies. They often killed them after the rapes.

[WarGamer]

16. gruesome stories out of Berlin...

Including women hanging from the walls of wooden buildings impaled by bayonets.

There WERE NO good guys fighting in WW2 East of Berlin.

[Blue_true]

18. Why do you think the Berlin Wall went up.

People were trying to get the hell away from the Soviets after years of living under their brutality, so The Kremlin had to stop those people from literally walking to the other side.

[Raine]

22. That's what I was thinking too. 😪 nt

[smirkymonkey]

13. Just horrifying.

No words.

[Blue_true]

19. The actions of Russia (Stalin) in WWII have been washed in history books.

Stalin was a brutal monster who allowed anything that would advance his rule happen, in fact him and his henchman Beria ran systemic efforts to implant terror into populations.

Stalin was an ally to Nazi Germany before Hitler invaded Russia, then he changed sides. Russia helped with the invasion of Poland and the defeat of once free countries near Russia that Hitler’s stormtroopers overran early in the war.

[denbot]

20. Stolsinichen's "The Gulag Archipelago"

A true account of Stalin’s Soviet state, and a horrific read.

[Hekate]

21. KnR