Organisation: Soviet secret police

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WWII prisoners shed light on Polish slaughter

American POWs sent secret coded messages to Washington with news of a Soviet atrocity: In 1943 they saw rows of corpses in an advanced state of decay in the Katyn forest, on the western edge of Russia, proof that the killers could not have been the Nazis who had only recently occupied the area.

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Poles halt Russia’s advance

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Traumatic past buries hope for future

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Soldiers looted Polish crash tragedy bodies

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Passengers visited cockpit before Kaczynski crash

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Medvedev in damning assessment of Soviet system

Country united in grief for lost president

THE body of President Lech Kaczynski was returned to Poland yesterday where it was greeted by grieving dignitaries and thousands of Poles lining the route from Warsaw’s airport to the presidential palace.

Mon, 12 Apr, 2010

Poland in silent tribute to plane-crash victims

Thousands of people stood silent in the streets of Poland’s cities today in a silent memorial to President Lech Kaczynski and the other 95 people killed in a devastating plane crash.

Sun, 11 Apr, 2010

Poland mourns President's death

Poles wept before their televisions, lowered flags to half-mast and taped black ribbons in their windows after hearing that President Lech Kaczynski and the upper echelons of the establishment lay dead in woods a short drive from the site of the Katyn forest massacre, where 22,000 Polish officers were killed by Soviet secret police in one of Poland’s greatest national traumas.

Sun, 11 Apr, 2010

Russia: Massacre of 21,000 Poles not genocide

The massacre of more than 21,000 Polish officers and intellectuals by the Soviet secret police n 1940 was not genocide, Russia’s top military prosecutor said today.

Fri, 11 Mar, 2005