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Katyn Massacre
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Katyn Massacre During their occupation of the eastern half of Poland in accordance with the
Hitler-Stalin Pact in 1939, the Soviet army imprisoned around 14,000 officers of the Polish armed forces, among them many conscripts including intellectuals and artists. These were secretly, but systematically, shot by officers of the Soviet
NKVD/
KGB, on
Stalin's orders. Traces of this act were only discovered in April 1943, when the mass grave of around 4,500 of them was discovered in the Katyn Forest (near Smolensk). The
Red Cross subsequently verified that they had been shot by Soviet soldiers, and the Polish government-in-exile demanded an explanation from the USSR.
Stalin denied any involvement, and used the accusations to break off relations with the Polish government-in-exile. Even though the Soviet version of events was the official doctrine adopted by the Polish Communist government, the event soured relations between the two countries for decades. Only in 1991 did the new Russian government under
Yeltsin admit that Stalin had, indeed, ordered the execution.
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The Purpose of the National Katyn Memorial: An Essay
Newspaper article from: Polish-American Journal; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...01-2001 The Purpose of the National Katyn Memorial: An Essay In the cold, cloudy...directly at the memorial to those who fell at Katyn Forest. Finally, the truth can be told...emotion of the ceremony overcame National Katyn Memorial Committee Chairman Alfred B...
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Polish filmmaker hopes his new film "Katyn" will be shown in Russia.
Newspaper article from: Poland Business News; 7/10/2007; 700+ words
; Polish filmmaker hopes his new film Katyn will be shown in Russia MOSCOW. July 9...s latest film, a drama depicting the Katyn massacre, where more than 20,000 Polish...events in and around the Ukrainian town of Katyn in 1940 and stars Russian actor Sergei...
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Katyn Memorial Site Dedicated in Baltimore
Newspaper article from: Polish-American Journal; 12/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Polish-American Journal 12-01-1996 Katyn Memorial Site Dedicated in Baltimore...R. MURAWSKI BALTIMORE--The National Katyn Memorial Committee formally dedicated the...and intellectual figures who died in the Katyn Massacre. On a warm and sunny September...
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National Katyn Memorial Proposed for Baltimore Inner Harbor
Newspaper article from: Polish-American Journal; 7/1/1994; ; 602 words
; ...American Journal 07-01-1994 National Katyn Memorial Proposed For Baltimore Inner Harbor...positively to a proposal for a National Katyn Memorial in the highly visible Inner Harbor area. The National Katyn Memorial Committee, based in Baltimore...
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Andrzej Wajda's "Katyn" Receives a Nomination for Foreign Language Film for 80th Academy Awards(R).
Business Wire; 1/22/2008; 700+ words
; ...Cinema master Andrzej Wajda's film "Katyn" about the murder of thousands of Polish...important news of the nomination of my film `Katyn' in Warsaw this afternoon," comments...Academy Award[R] nomination gives `Katyn' an additional opportunity to reach international...
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Stalin's willing executioners.(Katyn)(Movie review)
Magazine article from: The American Conservative; 9/8/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Lifetime Achievement Oscar, premiered Katyn, his long-awaited epic about the 1940...his tombstone. A blockbuster in Poland, Katyn earned a Best Foreign Film nomination here...for English subtitles and Region Zero. ) Katyn begins Sept. 17, 1939, as Polish civilians...
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Katyn.(Movie review)
Magazine article from: Daily Variety; 2/19/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...of some 15,000 Polish Army officers at Katyn, Russia, reps the hub from which spokes of drama emanate in the WWII epic "Katyn." First work in five years by Andrzej...might expect from the son of one slain at Katyn. Instead, this plays almost like an academic...
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Katyn Memorial Major Improvements
Newspaper article from: Polish-American Journal; 6/30/2005; 444 words
; ...instruct the many visitors to the National Katyn Memorial here at it's prime Inner Harbor East location, the National Katyn Memorial Foundation (NKMF) has undertaken...The first panel--"The National Katyn Memorial" (shown above), will describe...
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Russian president's envoy calls WWII-era Katyn killings 'tragic test of Russian-Polish friendship'.
Newspaper article from: Poland Business News; 9/17/2007; 575 words
; ...Russian president's envoy calls WWII-era Katyn killings 'tragic test of Russian-Polish friendship' KATYN (Smolensk Oblast, Russia). Sept 17...murders of Russian and Polish citizens in Katyn resulted from repression at a time in history...
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KATYN MASSACRE REMEMBERED
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 6/5/1991; ; 444 words
; ...Record (Bergen County, NJ) 06-05-1991 KATYN MASSACRE REMEMBERED By Duane Stoltzfus...soldiers killed by Soviet secret police in the Katyn Forest massacre stands along the waterfront...Joseph A. Plonski, a director of the Katyn Forest Massacre Memorial Committee...
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Katyn
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Katyn , village, W central European Russia, 12...officers had been found in a forest near Katyn and accused the Soviets of having massacred...proved Stalin's direct involvement in the Katyn massacre. Bibliography: See V. Abarinov...
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Katyn Forest Massacre
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
KATYN FOREST MASSACRE Katyn Forest, a wooded area near the village of Gneizdovo outside the Russian...orders at the opening of World War II, is often referred to as the Katyn Massacre or the Katyn Forest Massacre. The incident was not spoken...
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Katyn Massacre
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Katyn Massacre During their occupation of the eastern half of Poland in accordance...1943, when the mass grave of around 4,500 of them was discovered in the Katyn Forest (near Smolensk). The Red Cross subsequently verified that they had...
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Katyn massacre
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Katyn massacre A massacre in Katyn forest in the western USSR. In 1943 the German army claimed to have discovered a mass grave of some 4500 Polish officers, part of a group of 15,000 Poles who had disappeared from Soviet captivity in 1940 and...
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Wajda, Andrzej
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...or A.K.), which was the secret militia of the Polish government in exile. His father died in what became the notorious Katyn Forest massacre near the Soviet city of Smolensk, in which mass graves of some four thousand Poles — including an...
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