The Hunting Party

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Summary: A look back in time at a snippet from Illya's childhood as his father prepares him for the coming war. # 3 in the Illya series on Fanfiction.net under Mlaw.

Rating: Gen
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Nicholaí Kuryakin had deemed it safe to enter the forest now, though he remembered the thousands rumored to have been buried there, victims of the NKVD who were executed as real or alleged enemies of the Soviet State. From the early 1920s and through the Stalinist purges, the government hauled the bodies of tortured and murdered political prisoners to the pine forests outside the village of Bykivnia and buried them in hundreds of unmarked graves.

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The Hunting Party

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Summary: A look back in time at a snippet from Illya's childhood as his father prepares him for the coming war. # 3 in the Illya series on Fanfiction.net under Mlaw.

Rating: Gen
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Nicholaí Kuryakin had deemed it safe to enter the forest now, though he remembered the thousands rumored to have been buried there, victims of the NKVD who were executed as real or alleged enemies of the Soviet State. From the early 1920s and through the Stalinist purges, the government hauled the bodies of tortured and murdered political prisoners to the pine forests outside the village of Bykivnia and buried them in hundreds of unmarked graves.

( Read more... )