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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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19) Interestingly enough, 2000 was the 60th year anniversary of the Katyn massacre, wherein 21,857 Poles' including military officers and civilians were executed by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, on Stalin's orders. |
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