Solomon Milshtein
- Birth Date:
- 00.00.1899
- Death date:
- 14.01.1955
- Length of life:
- 56
- Days since birth:
- 45787
- Years since birth:
- 125
- Days since death:
- 25319
- Years since death:
- 69
- Person's maiden name:
- Solomon Rafailovich Milshtein
- Extra names:
- СОЛОМОН МИЛЬШТЕЙН, Solomons Milšteins, СОЛОМОН РАФАИЛОВИЧ МИЛЬШТЕЙН
- Categories:
- Repression organizer, supporter, Victim of repression (genocide) of the Soviet regime
- Nationality:
- jew
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Solomon Rafailovich Milshtein (Russian: Соломон Рафаилович Мильштейн; 1899 – 14 January 1955) was a Soviet state security official.
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03.04.1940 | Start of Katyn massacre
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, 'Katyń crime'; Russian: Катынский расстрел Katynskij ra'sstrel 'Katyn shooting'), was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, in April and May 1940. The massacre was prompted by NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all captive members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, with 21,768 being a lower limit.[1] The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere. Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, and the rest were arrested Polish intelligentsia the Soviets deemed to be "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests".