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Thread: Today in 1940, Stalin & other members of the Soviet Politburo signed an order of execution for some 25,700 members of the Polish intelligentsia including all the captive members of the Polish officer corps. It is known as the Katyn Massacre.
Those murdered by the Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) included about 8000 officers & 6000 police. Amongst the others was the Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army, Baruch Steinberg.
The killings took place in a number of locations from 1940 including the Kalinin & Kharkiv Prisons as well as the Katyn Forest in Russia. Conscription in Poland required university graduates to be officers. It is believed Stalin wished to set back Polish technical ability.
The Nazis discovered the mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943 & broadcast the massacre for propaganda purposes. The Soviet’s claimed the Nazis were responsible. In 1990 the Soviet Union admitted the atrocity & condemned it.
You can learn more about the Katyn Massacre here: polska.pl/history/histor…
An overview of the Soviet Union in WWII is given here: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…
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