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Katyń

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In April and May 1940

by a decision of the highest authority of Soviet Union,

at least 22 thousand Polish prisoners and POWs were murdered

Bodies of 4,415 of them were buried in the Katyn Forest

The aim was to annihilate the Polish elite

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