Quote Originally Posted by diogen_ View Post
You're imagining things, aren't you? How do you know that the video is about pro-Nazi traitors?
Because any other people were not publicly hanged. Hanging was used by the Czarist Russia and by the Whites. The Soviets generally abandoned this practice with only a small exception during WWII.

The soldiers wear the WWII uniform and one soldier on the video holds a PPSh submachine gun that would not be used in the peacetime. PPSh was exploited starting from 1941.

Quote Originally Posted by diogen_ View Post
If it were so do you really approve these medieval executions?
Do you disapprove the "medieval execution" of Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg?

Quote Originally Posted by diogen_ View Post
Закрытая, замазанная, зарытая тема. Публичные казни широко проводились в период коллективизации, гражданской войны и в 40-е годы. Среди крупных городов, жители которых были свидетелями этих актов средневекового мракобесия, следует назвать Ленинград. Казни проводились на площади Калинина, у кинотеатра “Гигант”. Через прилегающие улицы натягивались тросы, на каждый из которых крепились по две петли. Приговоренных подвозили на грузовых автомобилях с откинутыми бортами; по одному в каждой машине. После зачитывания приговоров, набрасывали петли и автомашины отъезжали...
Could you give any evidence that the above is fabricated?
Public executions in Leningrad were only performed during WWII. Hanging was also used only during WWII.
The above comment makes impression that public executions by hanging were performed in Leningrad during collectivization and the Civil War, which is not true.
The video of hanging of pro-Nazi traitors is used to make impression that in the similar way the USSR was executing people in peace time.

While the Reds possibly used mass executions during the Civil war, they did never use hanging and unlikely performed so in Leningrad, which was far from the front line.

And of course, this topic was never "covered up", as the text claims. The public executions of pro-Nazi traitors during WWII were always well known.