Russia Hands Over More Katyn Massacre Documents

RUSSIAN PROSECUTORS will hand over more documents on the Katyn massacre to Poland on Thursday, a spokesman for the Russian Prosecutor General’s office said.

…”On September 23, a total of 20 volumes of documents concerning the execution of Polish nationals in Katyn will be handed over in the Russian Prosecutor General’s office,” the spokesman said.

The Katyn massacre, when thousands of officers, police and civilians taken prisoner during the 1939 partitioning of Poland by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were killed, has remained one of the most painful issues in the Russian-Polish relations.

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