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🗓️ 11 April 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Tens of thousands of Polish officers were secretly executed in the USSR during World War 2. The German occupying forces reported the first mass grave, in the village of Katyn in 1943, but Moscow only admitted to the killings in 1990. Dina Newman speaks to the son of one of the murdered officers, Waclaw Gasiorowski. Photo: Gasiorowski family in Warsaw in 1936. Credit: family archive.
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1:10.0 | I'm Dina Newman, and today I bring you the story of 20,000 Polish officers, prisoners of war, who disappeared in the USSR during World War II. |
1:20.0 | Decades later, Russia revealed that they had been shot by Soviet forces in April 1940. |
1:27.0 | The killings, named after one of the villages in which they were executed, are referred to as the |
1:32.0 | Katin massacre. |
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