In a large number of cases during the Great Purge , the oral sentence was " 10 years of corrective labor camps without the right of correspondence " , which was announced to relatives , while the paperwork contained the real sentence : " the highest degree of punishment : execution by shooting " . < ! -- All of the bodies identified from the mass graves at Vinnytsia and Kuropaty had received this kind of sentence
Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia massacre
Without the right of correspondence