In a symbolic admission of guilt, Russia’s parliament has declared that Joseph Stalin ordered his secret police to execute 22,000 Polish army officers and civilians in 1940, in one of the greatest mass murders of the 20th century.
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Russia to release massacre files
The Russian government has agreed to allow the Polish authorities to examine Soviet archives on what Poles call the Katyn Forest massacre of 1940.
Continue readingUpheaval in the East; Gorbachev Hands Over Katyn Papers
MOSCOW, April 13 — President Mikhail S. Gorbachev today gave President Wojciech Jaruzelski of Poland cartons of documents that the Soviet leader said “indirectly but convincingly” proved that the Soviet secret police killed thousands of Polish officers in Katyn Forest in the spring of 1940.
Continue readingGorbachev documents Soviet guilt at Katyn
MOSCOW — President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, seeking to defuse the single biggest issue poisoning relations between the Soviet Union and neighboring Poland, gave Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski documents Friday that showed that Soviet secret police killed thousands of Polish army officers during World War II and buried them in mass graves in a Russian forest.
Continue readingStalin’s order for the Katyn Forest Massacre
Top Secret
March 5, 1940
USSR People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs
Moscow
To Comrade Stalin
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