17 Facts About Katyn massacre

The reason for the Katyn massacre, according to the historian Gerhard Weinberg, was that Stalin wanted to deprive a potential future Polish military of a large portion of its talent.

Those who died at Katyn massacre included soldiers, 200 pilots, government representatives and royalty, and civilians .

In 1942, with the territory around Smolensk under German occupation, captive Polish railroad workers heard from the locals about a mass grave of Polish soldiers at Kozelsk near Katyn massacre; finding one of the graves, they reported it to the Polish Underground State.

The Katyn massacre was beneficial to Nazi Germany, which used it to discredit the Soviet Union.

Katyn massacre reportedly admitted something like that to friends and family shortly before his death in 1946.

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The report deconstructed the Soviet account of the Katyn massacre and alluded to the political consequences within a strongly moral framework but recognized there was no viable alternative to the existing policy.

Katyn massacre's efforts were at first highly regarded, but subsequently ignored, which a disillusioned Jeffery later attributed to the actions of Kim Philby and other high-ranking communist agents entrenched in the British government.

Katyn massacre's confession was full of absurdities, and thus he was not used as a Soviet prosecution witness during the Nuremberg trials.

Katyn massacre later recanted his confession, claiming the investigators forced him to confess.

Censorship in the Polish People's Republic was a massive undertaking and Katyn massacre was specifically mentioned in the "Black Book of Censorship" used by the authorities to control the media and academia.

Katyn massacre remained a political taboo in the Polish People's Republic until the fall of the Eastern Bloc in 1989.

Katyn massacre's remarks were given extensive coverage on Soviet television.

Katyn massacre's report mentioned Soprunenko and another participant, Vladimir Tokaryev, who was 89 but still recalled how 250 Poles were murdered every night in Kalinin.

In 2008, the Polish Foreign Ministry asked the government of Russia about alleged footage of the Katyn massacre filmed by the NKVD during the killings, something the Russians have denied exists.

The Russian president reiterated Russia would continue to declassify documents on the Katyn massacre and ordered to release the documents proving the guilt of Stalin and his secret police chief Beria.

In November 2010, the State Duma passed a resolution declaring long-classified documents "showed that the Katyn massacre crime was carried out on direct orders of Stalin and other Soviet officials".

The declaration called for the Katyn massacre to be investigated further to confirm the list of victims.