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Katyn ForestForest near Smolensk, southwest of Moscow, Russia, where 4,500 Polish officer prisoners of war (captured in the German-Soviet partition of Poland 1940) were shot; 10,000 others were killed elsewhere. In 1989 the USSR accepted responsibility for the massacre. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Much had been revealed about Stalin's purge trials, the Ukrainian famine genocide, the Katyn Forest massacre, the Soviet subjugation of Eastern Europe, the ruthless suppression of Russian artists and intellectuals, and many other crimes. Stalin pursued similar policies between 1939 and 1941, especially the massacre in the spring of 1940 of 26,000 Polish military officers and state officials at Katyn Forest and other sites, and the genocidal mass deportations to Siberia and other ghastly remote regions of the Soviet Union. It's not his fault that history has betrayed the judgment at Nuremberg--by proving conclusively, for example, that the Soviets, who were among the most zealous prosecutors and most vengeful judges at Nuremberg, also committed one of the most terrible crimes of World War II, the massacre at Katyn Forest. |
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