Stalin's Executioners: The Katyn Massacre
Learn the true story of the Katyn massacre. This crime, attributed to the Nazis for 50 years, was in fact carried out by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. In a clearing near the city of Smolensk, on the border with Belarus, thousands of Polish soldiers, mainly officers, were executed. Eighty years later, Cédric Tourbe tells the story from the side of the victims and their executioners.
Learn the true story of the Katyn massacre. This crime, attributed to the Nazis for 50 years, was in fact carried out by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. In a clearing near the city of Smolensk, on the border with Belarus, thousands of Polish soldiers, mainly officers, were executed. Eighty years later, Cédric Tourbe tells the story from the side of the victims and their executioners.
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