Or should he keep his army in Smolensk for the approaching winter?

还是把军队驻扎在斯摩棱斯克，在那儿度过将到的冬天？

4500 Polish officers are executed with a bullet in the head in the Katyn forest near Smolensk in Russia.

4500名波兰军官在苏联斯摩林斯克附近的卡廷森林被枪决。

In August, the French and Russian armies engaged at Smolensk, in a battle that left over ten thousand dead on each side.

到了8月，法俄两军在斯摩棱斯克交战，这一战役中，双方各有上万人阵亡。

Another cross once stood in the same spot to commemorate the traumatic plane crash in Smolensk in 2010 that killed Poland's president and many other senior officials.

另一个十字架曾矗立在同一个地方，以纪念2010年在斯摩棱斯克发生的飞机坠毁事件，那次事故造成波兰总统和其他许多高级官员丧生。