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RUSSIA-POLAND-KATYN-WWII-CRIME-HISTORY-FILES
(FILES) A picture taken on November 27, 1997 shows Polish priest Zdzislaw Peszkowski praying in front of skulls of Polish officers killed in 1940 by the NKVD, USSR's secret police, in front of a mass grave in Katyn. More than 22,000 Polish officers were killed by Soviet security forces in the Katyn forest and other sites in 1940. They had been captured by the Soviet army after its September 1939 invasion of Poland under the terms of a secret pact with Nazi Germany.The Nazis discovered the officers' mass grave after they invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Moscow blamed the massacre on the Nazis for decades. It was only in 1990, a year before the Soviet Union's final collapse, that then Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev admitted his country's responsibility. Poland on February 3, 2010 hailed Russia's invitation to its prime minister to join Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to mark the 70th anniversary of a notorious massacre of Polish POWs by Soviet forces on April 7, 2010. AFP PHOTO / FILES PAP/CAF / PAWEL KOPCZYNSKI - POLAND OUT
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Katyn, RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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PAWEL KOPCZYNSKI |
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21 Noiembrie 1997 |
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1273 x 1746 (1.02 MB) |
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