1940
Massacre
About 15,000 Polish officers are murderred in Eastern Poland
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Katyn in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
About 15,000 Polish officers are murderred in Eastern Poland
The Kremlin admits to the massacre of 15,000 Polish army officers by the NKVD in 1940
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