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Article: WWII Soviet massacre of 4,000 Poles is told
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 17, 1989
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WARSAW Poland's official press has for the first time published
evidence that the Soviet Union, not Nazi Germany, carried out a
notorious World War II massacre of Polish army officers.
In a breakthrough in official attitudes, the weekly Odrodzenie
(Rebirth) published a wartime Polish report indicating the Soviet
Union was culpable for the Katyn Forest massacre of more than 4,000
captive officers.
The report, based on the findings of a 12-member Polish Red
Cross team who in 1943 exhumed the bodies from mass graves in Katyn
Forest near Smolensk, concluded that the men were killed in early
1940 when the Soviet Union held the region.
Soviet and Polish officials have consistently said the ...