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Ukraine Holocaust massacre presaged modern genocide A Soviet man discovers the bodies of his wife and children, who were killed by a Nazi death squad during their retreat from Crimea in 1942.⁠ ⁠ Learn more about the horrors of the eastern front of World War 2 by clicking the link in our profile.⁠ The war crimes and crimes against humanity which were perpetrated by the Soviet Union and its armed forces from 1919 to 1991 include acts which were committed by the Red Army (later called the Soviet Army) as well as acts which were committed by the country's secret police, NKVD, including its Internal Troops. In many cases, these acts were committed upon the orders of the Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin in pursuance of the early Soviet government's policy of Red Terror. In other instances they were committed without orders by Soviet troops against prisoners of war or civilians of countries that had been in armed conflict with the USSR, or they were committed during par...