A Ukrainian war criminal convicted of having murdered 200 Jews in Krasno-Armeisk, in the USSR, during World War II, was sentenced to death and executed immediately, a dispatch from Moscow reported today.
The man’s name was A. Skublenka; The Soviet court that tried him found he was a Nazi policeman and had wiped out the entire Jewish population in Krasno Armeisk, numbering 200 persons, in 1942.
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