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The USSR immediately blamed the Nazis for the killings, claiming the Poles were executed during the German advance in 1941.

In 1992, Boris Yeltsin released the "Package No. 1," which contained the original 1940 execution order signed by Stalin and the Politburo. The USSR immediately blamed the Nazis for the

The primary site of discovery and a major memorial. The primary site of discovery and a major memorial

For Poland, Katyn is more than a historical event; it is a symbol of national martyrdom. This trauma was tragically compounded on April 10, 2010, when a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczyński and 95 others crashed in Smolensk while they were en route to a 70th-anniversary commemoration of the massacre. 📍 📍 In communist-controlled Poland

In communist-controlled Poland, mentioning the Soviet role in Katyn was a crime; the official state narrative strictly blamed Germany for decades. The Path to Truth