Word: katyn
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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...
Ever since the bodies of more than 4,000 Polish officers were found in 1943 in the Katyn forest, near the Soviet city of Smolensk, their fate has been a disturbing blank spot in Polish history. Moscow has maintained that the cold- blooded killings were carried out by the Nazis after they invaded the U.S.S.R. in 1941. But Poles have long suspected that the officers were executed and buried in mass graves by Soviet forces...
...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...
...principal address to the Polish Sejm (parliament), Gorbachev profoundly disappointed even many conservative listeners by failing to deal forthrightly with the bitterest chapter in Soviet-Polish relations: the World War II massacre of 15,000 Polish army officers in the Katyn Forest, near Smolensk. The Soviets have long maintained that those murders were carried out by invading Nazi forces, but most Polish and many other historians believe they were ordered by Moscow. A joint Soviet-Polish historical commission was formed last year and given access to previously closed Soviet archives dealing with the matter. Many Poles had hoped that Gorbachev...