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Hard memories

, March 22, 2015

A man visits a World War Two memorial in the former village of Khatyn, northeast of Minsk on March 22. Nazi troops killed 149 villagers on March 22, 1943, most of them children and women, and burned down their houses and the village was never restored again, according to historians. Belarus will mark the 70th anniversary of their victory over Nazi Germany on May 9 this year.  Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko
 




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