katyn

The full horror of what took place at these three locations has gone down in history as the 'Katyn massacres'.

Those trying to raise the issue of Katyn felt that they were fighting a lonely battle.

Boris Yeltsin visited the Katyn monument in Warsaw, as Russian president, and said as he laid flowers "forgive us, if you can" .

the Russian State Duma was an unusual, on the theme for the Katyn incident to a historic conclusion.

Yet like Katyn, which eliminated the flower of the pre-war Polish elite, the plane crash also seems like a decapitation of Polish society.

In spring sunshine, Poles and Russians including relatives of the dead gathered for solemn prayers at the memorial site in the Katyn Forest.

Poland's leaders and media often remind Russia of its moral responsibility for the Katyn massacre.

We do not want to raise the issue of Katyn to a new level in domestic or international discussions.

Mr Putin has expressed sympathy for the victims of Katyn. But he has not publicly condemned their executioners.

Along with Orthodox and Catholic leaders, senior Jewish figures may attend a religious ceremony at the Katyn site in September.

Rossiya-24 showed hundreds of people around the Katyn monument, many holding Polish flags, some weeping.

What reason could there be for the Polish central bank governor to fly to Katyn to attend the ceremony?

Russia has turned over scores of volumes of documents this year about Katyn to the Polish government.

Mr Wajda's own father, Jakub, was murdered at Katyn, as were family members of many of the production team.

Katyn is an enduring symbol for Poles of their suffering at Soviet hands in the 20th century.

Throughout my career, I kept asking myself 'why am I not making a film about Katyn?

We want to close this issue, paying tribute to the victims of Katyn and condemning those who committed the evil deed.

Although the slaughter was committed in several places, Katyn has become its chief symbol.

this year he knelt to commemorate victims of the Katyn massacre ordered by Stalin in 1940.

But the forerunners of Auschwitz-Maydanek-Katyn were the two most terrifying: at Stashalkovo and Tuchola.

A U. S. historian who wrote a book about Katyn, hailed the Duma decision.

As a result we can at last form a near- complete picture of what took place at Katyn - and in its bitter aftermath.

The Katyn smoking gun is not hard to find.

Poles may sense a sell-out: Mr Putin's language at Gdansk last year fell short of the kowtow that some desire; it may be the same at Katyn.

An explosion in the fog of the forest took them and 94 others on the way to Katyn.

Polish captain Andrzej (Artur Zmijewski) says goodbye to his daughter before being shipped east by the Russians in the film Katyn

This scene from the 2010 film Katyn shows the massacres being carried out in the forests of what is now western Russia

Brutal: A scene from Katyn, a Polish film about the notorious massacre

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