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Icon "Khatyn": [photo] / photographer A. Melentiev. - Electronic data (1 file: 1.1 MB). - St. Petersburg: Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, 2015. - Access mode: the Internet portal of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. The title is based on the analysis of the object. Copying by users is not In the photo: souvenir badge "Khatyn". Icon in the form of a trapezoid, an obelisk with a bell on a background of a flame, at the bottom a diagonal inscription on a black background "Khatyn". White metal. Black and red enamel. Stamping. The size is 33x12 mm. Pin fastening. Without a brand, the price is 17 kopecks. Location: From a private collection. - A souvenir badge is dedicated to the memorial complex "Khatyn", located 54 km to the north-east from Minsk in the Logoisk district of the Minsk region of the Republic of Belarus. The memorial is located on the site of the village of Khatyn, which was destroyed on March 22, 1943 by a punitive detachment as revenge for the murder of several German servicemen by partisans. 149 residents of Khatyn were burned alive or shot for possible assistance to partisans. In 1969 the memorial complex was opened. "Khatyn" became a symbol of mass destruction of civilians, carried out by the Nazis in the occupied territory of the USSR, a tribute to all those who perished during the Great Patriotic War
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I. Melentiev, Alexei Mikhailovich (1958-). II. Presidential Library. B. N. Yeltsin (St. Petersburg) .1. "Khatyn", State Memorial Complex (Republic of Belarus) - Badges. 2. The people (the collection). 3. Memory of the Great Victory (collection). 4. Territory (collection). 5. Souvenir badges - the USSR. |
BBC 63.3 (2) 633-7y9 BBK 63.3 (4Bei) 63-7yu9
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Source of electronic copy: PB Place of origin: From private collection |
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