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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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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katyn massacre | Attack type | War crime, decapitation, massacre, mass killing | 1.00 | infobox |
| Katyn massacre | Date | April–May 1940 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Katyn massacre | Deaths | 21,857 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Katyn massacre | Location | .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars… | 1.00 | infobox |
| Katyn massacre | Motive | Anti-Polish sentiment | 1.00 | infobox |
| Katyn massacre | Motive | destruction of Polish leadership and Intelligentsia | 1.00 | infobox |
| Katyn massacre | Motive | Sovietisation | 1.00 | infobox |
| Katyn massacre | Perpetrator | NKVD | 1.00 | infobox |
| Katyn massacre | Target | Polish prisoners-of-war and internees (military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia) | 1.00 | infobox |
| the writer Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy | instance of | Its members included prominent Soviet figures | 0.80 | text |
| but no foreign personnel was allowed to join the commission | instance of | Its members included prominent Soviet figures | 0.80 | text |
| Memorial | instance of | and 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… | 0.80 | text |
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