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Katyn massacre

The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of Poles carried out by the Soviet Union between April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the NKVD prisons in Kalinin, Kharkiv and elsewhere, the massacre is named after the Katyn forest, where some of the mass graves were first discovered by Nazi German forces in 1943. Nearly 22,000…

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Attack type
War crime, decapitation, massacre, mass killing
Date
April–May 1940
Deaths
21,857
Motive
Anti-Polish sentiment · destruction of Polish leadership and Intelligentsia · Sovietisation
Perpetrator
NKVD
Target
Polish prisoners-of-war and internees (military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia)

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related to 1950s · 43
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related to External links · 38
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related to Post-war trials · 31
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Motive · 3
Katyn massacre → Anti-Polish sentiment, destruction of Polish leadership and Intelligentsia, Sovietisation
Attack type · 1
Katyn massacre → War crime, decapitation, massacre, mass killing
Date · 1
Katyn massacre → April–May 1940
Deaths · 1
Katyn massacre → 21,857
Location · 1
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Katyn massacre → NKVD

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Katyn massacreAttack typeWar crime, decapitation, massacre, mass killing1.00infobox
Katyn massacreDateApril–May 19401.00infobox
Katyn massacreDeaths21,8571.00infobox
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Katyn massacreMotiveAnti-Polish sentiment1.00infobox
Katyn massacreMotivedestruction of Polish leadership and Intelligentsia1.00infobox
Katyn massacreMotiveSovietisation1.00infobox
Katyn massacrePerpetratorNKVD1.00infobox
Katyn massacreTargetPolish prisoners-of-war and internees (military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia)1.00infobox
the writer Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoyinstance ofIts members included prominent Soviet figures0.80text
but no foreign personnel was allowed to join the commissioninstance ofIts members included prominent Soviet figures0.80text
Memorialinstance ofand they call on the Russian government to start a new investigation that would revise the findings of 2004.These alternative versions were refuted by a number of Russian histor…0.80text

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