Roughly 22,000 Polish nationals, including approximately 4,500 officers found in Katyn forest.
Following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, thousands of Polish prisoners of war were held in camps in the USSR. On March 5, 1940, Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders signed an order to execute "nationalists and counter-revolutionaries" held in these camps. 000 Polish nationals
The Soviet Union officially acknowledged that the NKVD had carried out the executions. including approximately 4
While Russia has provided many documents, it has resisted labeling the event as "genocide," and recent political tensions have led to renewed questioning of the official narrative within Russia. A Persistent Wound 000 Polish nationals