Svyatoslav Kulinok
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"On Point"
MINSK, 27 January (BelTA) – In a recent episode of BelTA’s YouTube project On Point. History Svyatoslav Kulinok, Candidate of Historical Sciences, explained why a trial of Nazi criminals in Minsk in 1946 made headlines.
“The Minsk trial took place in the Red Army House, which is now the Central House of Officers. More than 1,000 people with special passes were given an opportunity to attend and observe the trial,” said Svyatoslav Kulinok.
During the trial 14 out of the 18 defendants were sentenced to death by hanging, and the sentence was carried out on 30 January 1946. More than 100,000 people gathered at the Minsk racetrack where the Nazi criminals were executed. “People came with their families, with small children because they wanted to show them the people who had killed their parents and burned their homes. It was a very high-profile trial. In addition to the local press there were reporters from Moscow and, most interestingly, representatives of mass media from the USA, Great Britain, and China,” noted Svyatoslav Kulinok.
The historian emphasized that in this manner the Minsk trial was as public as possible. The episodes that were revealed during the trial were later studied more thoroughly and became another embodiment of the tragedy of the Belarusian nation during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
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