Two Soviet citizens were executed in the city of Krivograd, in the Soviet Union, after being sentenced to death there for participation in the Nazi mass-murder of Jews in the city, it was reported today from Moscow. The two, Kiril Zhuravlev and Josef Odnasum, had served in the local police during the Nazi occupation of Krivograd.
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