on november 3, 1944 , the next issue of the newspaper krasnaya zvezda was published in the soviet unionth a circulation of a million. it published an article by ilya orenburg, the judges say, it began with something unexpected and incomprehensible for many residents of europe the appeal of the englishwoman lady gib in that very civilized europe. to reconcile with the germans and leave the punishment of nazi criminals to god. the response from the ussr followed immediately. the newspaper published the testimony of those who were the first to enter the burned belarusian cities after liberation, and saw with their own eyes the consequences of the crimes of the nazis. and the memories of ilya ehrenburg himself. there is a terrible place near minsk. it absorbed the pain and suffering of prisoners of all concentration camps and ghettos created on the territory of the republic, including 546 tortured, shot, burned alive directly in this hellish place. in fourth place in europe after such infamous nazi death camps as auschwitz, maidanok, treblenka. the blagovshchina tract. mass executions were