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WASHINGTON — Documents published for the first time on a Russian government website last week confirm what the West has known for decades: The 1940 massacre of nearly 22,000 Polish prisoners of war in Russia’s Katyn forest was approved by top Soviet leadership and carried out by the Soviet Union’s security police, not the Nazis who had long been accused of the atrocity.
But experts say there’s much more in the Russian archives on Katyn that has yet to be revealed, including key pieces of information that would offer further insight into one of the largest wartime massacres of the 20th century.
