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The trial takes place between 18 and 21 June 1945 with foreign press and observers from the United Kingdom and USA present. The date was chosen carefully to be at the same time as a conference on the creation of the Soviet-backed Polish puppet Government was organized
According to international law the trial should not have taken place.
All but one of the defendants were forced to admit to the alleged crimes, and on 21 June the verdict was issued.
General Okulickis witnesses were not allowed to enter the court, which was a violation of Soviet law.
The Soviet Union kidnapped and sentenced a group of citizens of a foreign country whose alleged crimes were committed on a foreign land.
They were deprived of basic human rights and tortured.
The United Kingdom and the USA withdrew support for the legitimate Polish Government in exile, and all its agendas in Poland
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