Sacco and Vanzetti

Sakko i Vantsetti is a hamlet in Bakhmut Raion (district) in Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. The hamlet is named after the Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were controversially convicted of murdering a paymaster and a security guard at a shoe factory in the United States, executed in 1927 and rehabilitated in 1977 by Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. Soviet propaganda celebrated Sacco and Vanzetti as unjustly accused proletarians and revolutionaries. History Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 1, 2023, Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed his Wagner Group paramilitary fighters had captured the hamlet, posting a photograph purporting to show four of his soldiers posing in front of "the only surviving house in Sakko i Vantsetti.", despite there being no other buildings there previously to have been destroyed. By the middle of May 2023, Russian forces were claimed to have retreated from the hamlet following local Ukrainian counterattacks.