known execution took place on May 19, 1940, for robbery. The fate of the gas chamber after the occupation by the Soviet Union in June 1940 is unclear.

Soviet Union

As historian Robert Gellately pointed out, "the Soviets sometimes used a gas van (dushegubka), as in Moscow during the 1930s [...], but had no gas chambers." In interrogations in the late 1930s, NKVD officers had testified that

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