![The Butovo Firing Range was an execution site of the Soviet secret police located near Drozhzhino from 1938 to 1953. Butovo was used for mass executions and mass graves during Joseph Stalin's The Butovo Firing Range was an execution site of the Soviet secret police located near Drozhzhino from 1938 to 1953. Butovo was used for mass executions and mass graves during Joseph Stalin's](https://external-preview.redd.it/whGYdFw3XhtKsTQNjaqpGTNu1g1XkDAITRqLwSBPLEI.jpg?auto=webp&s=5cef4809ca0d84fa3eb429caba2c471e1f19907c)
The Butovo Firing Range was an execution site of the Soviet secret police located near Drozhzhino from 1938 to 1953. Butovo was used for mass executions and mass graves during Joseph Stalin's
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Butovsky Firing Range, A Religious Response to the Past · Reconciling its Oppressive Past: Moscow's Commemorations of Stalin's Great Terror · The Urban Imagination
![Photo: Russian President Putin visits the former Butovo firing range in Moscow - MOS2007103010 - UPI.com Photo: Russian President Putin visits the former Butovo firing range in Moscow - MOS2007103010 - UPI.com](https://cdnph.upi.com/pv/upi/05e005438742d8020bdf21489679f869/PUTIN-MEMORIAL-SERVICE.jpg)