The USSR immediately blamed the Nazis for the killings, claiming the Poles were executed during the German advance in 1941.
The Polish "intelligentsia"—military officers, police, professors, lawyers, and doctors—intended to decapitate the Polish nation's leadership. The USSR immediately blamed the Nazis for the
Home to the Katyń Museum , which preserves the memory of those lost. The USSR immediately blamed the Nazis for the
Following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, thousands of Polish prisoners of war were held in camps in the USSR. On March 5, 1940, Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders signed an order to execute "nationalists and counter-revolutionaries" held in these camps. The USSR immediately blamed the Nazis for the