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Article: Soviets Blamed in '40s Massacre; Poles Accuse Stalin's Police in Katyn Killings
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 8, 1989
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The Polish government has concluded that "everything indicates"
that more than 4,000 Polish Army officers massacred at Katyn at the
beginning of World War II were killed not by the Nazis but by Soviet
secret police, a spokesman said today.
It was the strongest government statement yet pointing to Soviet
culpability, although an official newspaper last month published a
wartime Polish Red Cross report indicating the officers were killed
on Soviet territory well before the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet
Union.
Chief government spokesman Jerzy Urban said that the inscription
on a monument in Warsaw blaming the Nazis for the killings will be
changed. "We think that everything indicates that ...