THE HORRIBLE STORY OF KATYN MASSACRE ( THE MASS EXECUTION OF THE 22000 POLISH PRISONERS).

  

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The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD in April and May 1940. The massacre is named after the Katyn Forest, where some of the mass graves were first discovered by German forces.


The Soviet Union claimed the Nazis had killed the victims, and it continued to deny responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the killings by the NKVD, as well as the subsequent cover-up by the Soviet government.


An investigation conducted by the office of the prosecutors general of the Soviet Union (1990–1991) and the Russian Federation (1991–2004) confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres, but refused to classify this action as a war crime or as an act of mass murder. 


The investigation was closed on the grounds that the perpetrators were dead, and since the Russian government would not classify the dead as victims of the Great Purge, formal posthumous rehabilitation was deemed inapplicable. 


Documents released  lend weight to the belief that suppression within the highest levels of the U.S. government helped cover up Soviet guilt in the killing of some 22,000 Polish officers and other prisoners in the Katyn forest and other locations in 1940. 


The most dramatic revelation is the evidence of the secret codes sent by the two American POWs — something historians were unaware of and which adds to evidence that the Roosevelt administration knew of the Soviet atrocity relatively early on.


The reason for the massacre, according to the historian Gerhard Weinberg, was that Stalin wanted to deprive a potential future Polish military of a large portion of its talent.


Vasily Blokhin's most infamous act was the April 1940 execution by personally shooting of about 7,000 Polish prisoners interned in the Ostashkov prisoner of war camp in the Katyn forest. The majority were military and police officers who had been captured following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939.


The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940. 


Though the killings also occurred in the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere, the massacre is named after the Katyn Forest.


On 20-21 June 1940 358 Pawiak prisoners were deported from Warsaw in three transports. They were representatives of the Polish intelligentsia, arrested in the spring of 1940.


 Germans believed that after the murder of the intelligentsia - the only group of the Polish population that had a national identity according to them, the rest of the nation could be easily changed into obedient workers. All prisoners were murdered in Palmiry near Warsaw - it was the largest of executions carried out by the Germans in this place.

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