Katyn ✦ Validated & Simple

The primary site of discovery and a major memorial.

The "Katyn Lie" finally began to crumble during the era of glasnost under Mikhail Gorbachev. The primary site of discovery and a major memorial

Home to the Katyń Museum , which preserves the memory of those lost. The primary site of discovery and a major memorial

The Polish "intelligentsia"—military officers, police, professors, lawyers, and doctors—intended to decapitate the Polish nation's leadership. The primary site of discovery and a major memorial

In 1992, Boris Yeltsin released the "Package No. 1," which contained the original 1940 execution order signed by Stalin and the Politburo.

In April 1943, Nazi German forces occupying the region discovered mass graves in the Katyn forest near Smolensk. They publicized the find to drive a wedge between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union.