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The Soviet NKVD blew up...

history · 28 August 1941 · 83 years ago

The Soviet NKVD blew up Zaporozhye hydroelectric dam on the River Dnieper in Ukraine to prevent German use. Thousands of civilians who resided downstream were killed by the flooding. 

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