Dmitry Shlyakhtin, director of the Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War: "Khatyn is one of 628 Belarusian villages burnt together with residents"
75 years ago, on March 22, 1943, the village of Khatyn was burned by the fascists; 149 people died, 75 of them children. In 1969, on the site of the village was created the Memorial Complex
