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museum in Dnepropetrovsk includes a room dedicated to the memory of those lost to the
oppression of their own government. The stories are brought home by the photographs
of real people in a pyramid. A story repeated thousands of times over was of a
Mennonite by the name of Hamm. The Soviets awarded him the Lenin prize in 1931 for
helping design their first combine, then later in the decade, declared him an enemy of the
state, and he was shot.The number of Mennonites killed or starved to death by
government policy between 1914 and the end of WWII may have reached 60,000; the number in
the entire USSR may have reached 60,000,000! |
