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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

Newsweek reports [newsweek.com] that, after an "investigation, which began in December 2015," a Ukrainian prosecutor has filed charges against Josef Stalin [wikipedia.org] and Lavrentiy Beria [wikipedia.org] over the deportation of the Tatars from Crimea [wikipedia.org], which began in 1944. Mr. Stalin led the Soviet Union until his death in March 1953; Mr. Beria, who served as chief of the secret police [wikipedia.org], was killed in June of the same year.

additional coverage:

• The Sun [thesun.co.uk] (tabloid)
• TASS [tass.com] (Russian government outlet [wikipedia.org])
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty [rferl.org] (funded by U.S. government [wikipedia.org])
• Sputnik News [sputniknews.com] (Russian government outlet [wikipedia.org])

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