page_title: Soviet repressions in Belarus
section_title: Science
hierarchical_section_title: Soviet repressions in Belarus / Effects / Science
caption_attribution_description: English: Kurapaty near Minsk is the place where mass executions of Belarusian civilians were carried out during the Stalin regime (1937 - 1941) Беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎: Урочышча Курапаты пад Менскам — месца масавых расстрэлаў і пахаваньняў беларускіх цывільных асобаў, зьдзейсьненыя падчас сталінскіх рэпрэсіяў у 1937—1941 гадох
context_page_description: Soviet repression in Belarus refers to cases of persecution of people in Belarus under Communist rule. This includes persecution of people for alleged counter-revolutionary activity, as well as deportation of people to other regions of the USSR based on their social, ethnic, religious or other background.
context_section_description: According to Kushner, in the 1930s, only 26 Belarusian academicians and 6 correspondent members of the Belarusian Science Academy were unaffected by repressions. Of 139 PhD students (aspirants) in Belarus as of 1934, only six people escaped execution during the repressions. According to Kushner, the Soviet repressions virtually stopped any humanities research in Belarus.
  According to the Belarusian-Swedish historian Andrej Kotljarchuk, in the 1930s the Soviets either physically exterminated or banned from further research 32 historians from Minsk with their works being also excluded from libraries. According to Kotljarchuk, the Soviet authorities thereby physically destroyed the Belarusian school of history studies of that time.
caption: Kurapaty, a former Soviet mass extermination site near Minsk
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