A Ukrainian soldier stands guard during a commemoration ceremony at the memorial near the village of Bykovnya yesterday. More than 50,000 people, including Poles, were shot and buried at Bykovnya between 1937 and 1941, during the repressive period of late Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

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