Babi Yar. Context -

For decades, the Soviet government suppressed the specifically Jewish nature of the victims, referring to them only as "peaceful Soviet citizens."

Following the German occupation of Kyiv, a series of explosions set off by Soviet NKVD agents destroyed German-occupied buildings. Babi Yar. Context

The German military command used these explosions as a pretext to "liquidate" the Jewish population of Kyiv. Babi Yar. Context