Putin Remembers The Katyn Massacre With His Polish Counterpart

Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia took part in a wreath laying ceremony at the memorial to Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s secret police in 1940, in Katyn near Smolensk, Russia on Wednesday. Pool photograph by Alexei Nikolsky

Putin Commemorates WWII Massacre -- New York Times

MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin joined his Polish counterpart on Wednesday in the first joint commemoration marking the anniversary of the murder of thousands of Polish officers by the Soviet Union at the beginning of World War II.

Mr. Putin met with Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, in Russia at a site in the Katyn forest close to the city of Smolensk, where 70 years ago members of the Soviet secret police executed over 20,000 Polish officers captured after the Soviet Red Army invaded Poland in 1939.

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