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Kurenivka, 13 March 1961: A Memorial Essay

A C2 Ukrainian memorial essay on the Kurenivka disaster in Kyiv based on Viktor Krupyna's article: the events, causes, press silence, the official figure of 145 and other estimates, and memorial signs.

Куренівка, 13 березня 1961 року

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Restrained rhetorical questions that are answered at once: «Чому в такому місці взагалі намивали землю?», «А чому мовчали газети?», «Скільки ж людей загинуло?»

A memorial essay based on Viktor Krupyna's article in Ukrainskyi istorychnyi zhurnal (2012). The official figure of 145 victims is given as the official figure, while the estimates of 198, 1,500 and 1,500-2,000 are attributed to their authors or sources; no officials are named beyond the article. The state of the memorial signs is described as of the article's writing (2012).

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