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Thursday, April 8, 2010

The Katyn massacre: A crime without punishment


POLAND REMEMBERS

Stalin's shame


Seventy years after the Katyn massacre, Russia and Poland have made a substantial effort to redress their enmity over a war crime committed during the opening stages of the Second World War. But there's still much left to discuss, historians say.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Polish counterpart, Donald Tusk, met in Russia on Wednesday to jointly commemorate the more than 20,000 Polish officers, police and others who were murdered by the Soviet secret police and buried in mass graves in the Katyn forest near Smolensk in 1940.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/04/07/f-katyn-massacre-interview.html#ixzz0kVeL56RJ