Here is an eyewitness account: 
Estimates for the total number of victims vary widely. Western historians estimate the total number of deaths at 50,000–200,000, while Russian historians suggest the combined death toll was up to 2 million people.
The site was discovere by historian Zianon Paźniak and exhumation of some remains started in 1988. There have been investigations by both the Russian and Belarusian governments, which have been conclusive as to the perpetrators were Soviet NKVD.
From the early 1920s until the late 1940s, the Soviet government hauled the bodies of tortured and killed political prisoners to the pine forests outside the village of Bykivnia and buried them in a grave that spanned 15,000 square metres (160,000 sq ft).
Soviet jails and prisons in territories annexed by the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact had been crowded with political prisoners.
Béla Kohn, later known as Béla Kun, was born on 20 February 1886 in the village of Lele (today in Satu Mare County, Romania). His father, Samu Kohn was a lapsed Jewish village notary, while his mother, Róza Goldberger, was a Jewish convert to Protestantism.
The EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) interviewed almost 4,700 people in the Roma and travellers community in six Western Europe countries: Belgium, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Born to a Jewish family in Tiraspol (part of Imperial Russia at the time), he was the son of Alexandru Grünberg, a miller. In 1932, he joined the local section of the Romanian Union of Communist Youth, a wing of the Romanian Communist Party (PCdR).
Born in 1902 as a subject of the Russian Empire in Tiraspol, he was briefly employed as a manual laborer, and trained as a locksmith, before joining the Red Army cavalry and seeing action in the Russian Civil War.
The resolution called for condemning "the massive human rights violations committed by totalitarian communist regimes", including "individual & collective assassinations & executions, concentration camps, starvation, deportations, torture, slave labor & other forms of terror".
Chisinau developed intensively during interbellum under the administration of Romania. Many comfortable houses, urban villas, apartment buildings, very well-designed schools were built, and libraries, printing houses, and theaters were opened. 
The Roman fortifications in Dobrudja were built both before and after the Aurelian retreat from Romania Dacia in 271/74, since Dobrucja (then called Scythia Minor) remained part of the Roman (and later Bizantine Empire) after that.
