Katyn

In 1992, Boris Yeltsin released the "Package No. 1," which contained the original 1940 execution order signed by Stalin and the Politburo.

Roughly 22,000 Polish nationals, including approximately 4,500 officers found in Katyn forest. In 1992, Boris Yeltsin released the "Package No

The Soviet Union officially acknowledged that the NKVD had carried out the executions. 000 Polish nationals

The Polish "intelligentsia"—military officers, police, professors, lawyers, and doctors—intended to decapitate the Polish nation's leadership. including approximately 4

Following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, thousands of Polish prisoners of war were held in camps in the USSR. On March 5, 1940, Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders signed an order to execute "nationalists and counter-revolutionaries" held in these camps.