To enforce compliance for example, three mass graves existed in the [[Ukrainian]] town of Vinnitsa containing between 9,000 and 11,000 bodies. One grave site was in the People's Park near the city center and town square. The so-called "secret police" hardly tried to keep secret its crimes as a method of intimidation against dissenters of the [[Socialist]] system.<ref>[https://en.calameo.com/read/001042085fbd969923dc9 The Tragedy of Vinnytsia: Materials on Stalin's Policy of Extermination in Ukraine During Th Great Purge, 1936-1938]. Ihor Kamenetsky. Ukrainian Hist. Association, 1989.</ref> It was "secret" only in the sense that survivors had enough sense to never speak about the disappearance of loved ones or question authorities. | To enforce compliance for example, three mass graves existed in the [[Ukrainian]] town of Vinnitsa containing between 9,000 and 11,000 bodies. One grave site was in the People's Park near the city center and town square. The so-called "secret police" hardly tried to keep secret its crimes as a method of intimidation against dissenters of the [[Socialist]] system.<ref>[https://en.calameo.com/read/001042085fbd969923dc9 The Tragedy of Vinnytsia: Materials on Stalin's Policy of Extermination in Ukraine During Th Great Purge, 1936-1938]. Ihor Kamenetsky. Ukrainian Hist. Association, 1989.</ref> It was "secret" only in the sense that survivors had enough sense to never speak about the disappearance of loved ones or question authorities. |