Salina: 83 years since the horrific tragedy in Lviv Oblast
The communist regime tortured 22,000 people.
The Salina tragedy is 83 years old. When the Soviet Union was retreating in 1941, the NKVD shot, tortured and threw more than 3,500 of our countrymen into a salt mine near Dobromyl. Some were buried alive. In just one week, 22,000 people were killed in western Ukraine.
“Unpunished evil is reborn. Today it has the face of poci. And the methods are the same. This is evidenced by the mass graves in Bucha, Irpin, Mariupol, Lysychansk, and other towns and villages where the occupier invaded. Retribution has already begun. Our Defenders are working on it every day. Eternal memory to the victims of Salina and to all the people who became innocent victims of Soviet and Putin’s terror. We must remember them and constantly bear witness to these crimes. Moscow will fall! Ukraine will be!” said Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration.
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During the Soviet era, until the 1980s, there was a famous health resort near the town of Dobromyl in the Starosambir region. It was built on the territory of salt mines. Salt baths are especially useful for asthmatics and tuberculosis patients.
Before the German-Soviet war, people did not relax here, but worked hard, extracting salt for decades. The local salt was known far beyond the borders of Galicia.
The tract with the salt mines has long been called Salina. It means “salty” in Latin.
Nowadays, the word Salina only evokes a sense of horror for the nearby residents. In June 1941, thousands of corpses were found in one of the mines. 70 years ago, on 26 June 1941, it turned out that one of the four mines was used by the Soviet authorities as a burial ground for undesirable Ukrainian civilians.