Soviets execute thousands of Polish officers at Katyn
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- Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War pp. 96-100 · open book
The preponderance of available evidence in this still-controversial episode points to the conclusion that Soviet security troops executed approximately 8,000 nationalist Polish army officers taken prisoner during 1939, then stacked the bodies like cordwood in mass graves at an isolated outpost.