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A woman walks past crosses on April 4, 2019 outside Minsk at the Kuropaty unofficial activist erected wooden crosses memorial known as a site where the Soviet secret police shot and buried thousands victims of the Soviet-era political repressions in the 1930s and 40s, as authorities demolished today some 70 large crosses erected in the area after a crowdfunded campaign were razed. An activist said police cordoned off the area from activists and journalists, while construction workers put up a fence. He and 14 other activists and opposition politicians were later detained at the site, police told Belarusian media. (Photo by Sergei Gapon/AFP Photo)
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