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Butovo firing range, an Uncommon card
The Butovo Shooting Site often mistakenly called Butovo Firing Range was an execution site of the Soviet secret police located near Drozhzhino in Leninsky District, Moscow Oblast from 1938 to 1953.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 130
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 17,000
Power 130 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Its use for mass execution has been documented, it was prepared as a site for mass burial.
- According to Arseny Roginsky, "firing range" was a popular euphemism adopted to describe the mysterious and closely-guarded plots of land that the NKVD began to set aside for mass burials on the eve of the Great Terror.
- Butovo was used for mass executions and mass graves during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, with 20,761 prisoners of various nationalities documented as being transported to the site and executed by the NKVD and its successor agencies.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Butovo firing range article was read about 17,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Butovo firing range (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Burov.yl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
