This memorial complex is sited on the land of the former village of Khatyn. It was the USSR's answer to the Polish and western charges/propaganda over the Katyn killings. The traditional figure is that one out of every four Belarusskis were killed by capitalism. I have read recently that the USSR killed one out of 10 Poles, most of them counterrevolutionaries. By some estimates, as many as one out of every 2.5 Belarusskis were killed, murdered, exiled, enslaved etc by capitalism in its fascist variant.
