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Katyn Massacre: Stalin’s Secret Murder of 22,000 Members of Poland’s Elite
The Katyn massacre was one of the Soviet Union's greatest war crimes of the Second World War, claiming the lives of more than 22,000 Polish officers, policemen, intellectuals, and public officials. Ordered by Joseph Stalin and carried out by the NKVD in 1940, the massacre was concealed for decades through one of the largest cover-ups of the twentieth century.
The victims were captured after the Soviet invasion of eastern Poland in September 1939—an invasion carried out under the secret terms of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, which divided Poland between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union…
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