Word: katyn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...respect for the state they helped destroy, the Soviets should own up to one of their war-time atrocities. Specifically, they should end the half century-long cover-up of a heinous crime in the Katyn forest...
...fate of the rest is well-known. Invading German armies found 4443 corpses in a mass grave in the Katyn forest, near Smolensk, USSR. Each victim had a bullet hole in the base of his skull. Each still wore his uniform, and each lay face-down over his fellow officers. Trees had been planted over the bodies...
Forensic evidence showed that the slaughter occured in 1940--well before the Germans occupied Katyn...
...massacre itself is tragic; the subsequent cover-up is tragi-comic. Despite almost incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, the USSR has consistently maintained that the Germans were responsible for the massacre. The Soviets, at least until recently, served up duplicity and intimidation when faced with questions about Katyn...
...years ago by a historian in Britain's Public Record Office. The report set the date of the murders between March and May of 1940, more than a year before the first German troops arrived. Polish officials, who presented the document to a joint Soviet-Polish commission investigating the Katyn massacre, had become increasingly impatient with Soviet procrastination...