Poland remembers victims of the Katyn Massacre
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
13.04.2018 15:57
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Poland remembers victims of the Katyn Massacre
Poles have marked 75 years since Germany's Transocean news service reported the discovery of mass graves of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk, western Russia.
Polish POWs captured by the Red Army during Soviet invasion of Poland. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Almost 22,000 Polish prisoners of war were killed in the spring of 1940 on orders from top Soviet authorities, according to Polish Radio’s IAR news agency.