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MOSCOW, March 21 The court recognized the mass murders committed in 1941-1943 in the Belgorod region by Nazi German troops as genocide of the peoples of the USSR, according to the website of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.
«The court upheld the statement of the prosecutor's office on the establishment of the fact of the genocide of the peoples of the Soviet Union, prepared on behalf of the Prosecutor General of Russia Igor Krasnov,» the report says.
The court found that the Nazis massacred Soviet citizens and prisoners of war in the Belgorod region , illegally arrested and brutally tortured people, as a result of which «more than 71.7 thousand people were exterminated.»
So, only in early February 1942 in the not a reed plant in the village of Mikhailovka, Belgorod District, where people were driven into sheds in groups of 40-50 people, shot and burned, about two thousand people died.
citizens on the territory of the Belgorod region and archival data,» is added in the message.