

I think the BBC has made the wrong assumption when cribbing from ABC or another news source.
Ms Brown has tracked down the great-nephew of one of the soldiers, Private Malcolm Alexander Neville, who came from Wilkawatt in South Australia.
He said his aunt, who was now 101, always told stories over the years of “Uncle Malcolm” and how he never returned home from the war.
I guess she, born in 1924, had heard a lot of stories from her parents or other families about him.







Just to clarify, since Yezhov (listed above in the post you’re replying to) was the main architect of the Yezhovshchina, and was himself later a victim of the same Great Purge, did he do some hard self-reflecting and turn himself in?