KYIV – Four days before Ukraine celebrated its 30th anniversary of renewed independence, a local historian in the Black Sea port city of Odesa reported finding 29 mass graves where victims of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s Great Terror of 1937-1938 were buried.
Oleksandr Babich’s Facebook post on August 20 slowly gained traction as he joined a team of researchers to measure the metes and bounds of the discovery situated southwest of the city where metal garages were slated to be relocated amid an expansion of the airport on the outskirts of the city.