During World War II..Germany and Soviet Russia Jointly
invaded Poland in 1939, Poland was split into two parts. under the rule of So
Viet Russia and Germany
In 1940, the
Russians did not want Poland. have the ability to resist them again The plan
was to eliminate all officers of the Polish Army, including intellectuals prone
to anti-Soviet Russia.
This operation was carried out by The secret police of the
NKVD, or People's Affairs Department of Soviet Russia (comparable to the
Ministry of the Interior) and approved by the Executive Committee of the
Communist Party, headed by Joseph Stalin.
NKVD secret police
unit Massacre operations began in April until May 1940.
by the Russian secret police has brought Mr. Po Lots of land
to Katyn Forest, located in Russia on the border with Poland, then everyone was
tied behind their backs and shot at the nape of the neck. before being buried
together in a large hole There was also a massacre of Polish prisoners. in the
Kalinin Prison and the Khakiv Prison (currently Khakiv is the second largest
city in Ukraine with a total of 22,000 deaths in killings by Russian secret
police, in what was called the Katyn massacre due to the discovery of a pit. A
large corpse in the Katin Forest was the first. until leading to the disclosure
of bad things that have happened
In 1943, after the
German invasion
Soviet German troops have found a giant tomb in the Katin
Forest and identified it as the work of the Russians. But Russian authorities
have denied and claimed the bodies. Killed by the Germans
After World War II
ended in 1945, attempts were made to investigate the massacre. But the Soviet
Russia still insisted that The Katin Massacre was done by the Germans. Until
1991, the Russian authorities had admitted that such a massacre It was the work
of the NKVD secret police and was the responsibility of the Soviet Union.
The Russian side did not admit that Is this a war crime?
genocide
Later, in November
2010, the State Duma of the Russian Federation therefore approved the
declaration of punishment
Stalin and other Soviet officials involved in the massacre
at that time
