Katyn May 2026

Locations of other mass burial sites discovered later.

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. Locations of other mass burial sites discovered later

The Soviet Union officially acknowledged that the NKVD had carried out the executions. The Soviet Union officially acknowledged that the NKVD

The primary site of discovery and a major memorial. 1," which contained the original 1940 execution order

In 1992, Boris Yeltsin released the "Package No. 1," which contained the original 1940 execution order signed by Stalin and the Politburo.

Home to the Katyń Museum , which preserves the memory of those lost.

For Poland, Katyn is more than a historical event; it is a symbol of national martyrdom. This trauma was tragically compounded on April 10, 2010, when a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczyński and 95 others crashed in Smolensk while they were en route to a 70th-anniversary commemoration of the massacre. 📍