The Russian Military-Historical Society headed by Putin's adviser organised the display at the site where Soviet secret police murdered around 22,000 Polish officers, police and intelligentsia in ...

Russia opened an exhibition titled "10 Centuries of Polish Russophobia" at the Katyn memorial complex on 10 April, drawing condemnation from Polish officials and victims' families who called the ...

A woman walks along the memorial to Polish officers murdered in the 1940 Soviet-era Katyn massacre, during a memorial ceremony at a grave site in Kharkiv on Sept. 25, 2010. Ukraine. (Photo by SERGEI ...

After dividing Poland with Nazi Germany, the Soviet leadership issued a secret order that sealed the fate of thousands of Polish officers and officials. In the spring of 1940, the NKVD executed more ...

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Polish President Andrzej Duda on Sunday commemorated the 85th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, describing it as a genocide aimed at destroying the country’s elite. Speaking in Kraków on the National ...

I had little connection with Poland when I was growing up. My mother was English, we spoke no Polish at home. Yet as a young adult, I found myself drawn to the country my father had fled as a child. I ...

The Polish president on Monday said that his country should seek compensation from Russia, the legal successor to the Soviet Union, for the 1940 Katyn Massacre of officers and intellectuals. President ...

"There can be no Polish flag on Russian monuments, and even less so after the frankly anti-Russian statements by Polish politicians." Poland's government says it will protest to Russia after the ...

Surviving Katyn: Stalin’s Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth by Jane Rogoyska (Oneworld Publications: 2021), 400 pages. Historian and filmmaker Jane Rogoyska begins her book on the April-May ...