Katyn

Locations of other mass burial sites discovered later.

For Poland, Katyn is more than a historical event; it is a symbol of national martyrdom. This trauma was tragically compounded on April 10, 2010, when a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczyński and 95 others crashed in Smolensk while they were en route to a 70th-anniversary commemoration of the massacre. 📍 Locations of other mass burial sites discovered later

The Soviet Union officially acknowledged that the NKVD had carried out the executions. Locations of other mass burial sites discovered later