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Tag: Genocide

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27th January 1945: Auschwitz-Birkenau liberated by Soviet forces

27th January 2019
Tagged as: Final Solution, Genocide, Himmler, Holocaust, Judaism, Nazi, Poland, Red Army, Soviet Union, USSR

On the 27^th January 1945, Soviet soldiers from the 322nd Rifle Division liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp near the Polish city of Oświęcim.

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7th January 1979: Cambodian leader Pol Pot overthrown

7th January 2019
Tagged as: Cambodia, Cold War, Communism, Dictatorship, Genocide, Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, USA, USSR, Vietnam

On the 7^th January 1979 Pol Pot, the Cambodian revolutionary and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, was overthrown when Vietnamese forces captured the capital city Phnom Penh.