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The Katyn massacre (not to be confused with the Khatyn massacre) refers to the mass executions of thousands of Polish soldiers and civilians in Eastern Europe which, while in reality were perpetrated by Nazi Germany sometime between 1941 and 1943, have been misattributed to the Soviet Union by anti-communist governments and historians, who claim that the massacres were carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940. The massacres are collectively named after the Katyn forest near Smolensk as the graves were first discovered there. However, many of the victims of the so-called "Katyn" massacre were actually murdered and buried in the Kharkiv and Tver Oblasts.
On 13 April 1943, German authorities announced that they had found thousands of bodies of Polish POWs near Katyn, which at the time was under German occupation. In an official report in the summer/autumn of 1943, Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn, the Germans claimed the Soviets had shot the Poles. The Polish government-in-exile in London accepted the German account and held the Soviets to be responsible. The Soviet government responded with their own report in 1944 by the Burdenko Commission which blamed the Germans. (Full article...)
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician and chief of the NKVD from 1938 to 1945. During the 1950s, he wanted to allow some private industry, weaken the kolkhoz system, and restore diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia. Molotov suspected that Beria was responsible for Stalin's death.
Beria's ally, Viktor Abakumov, was arrested in 1951 and removed from his position as leader of the MVD. Soon after, many of Beria's supporters were purged from the Georgian Central Committee for corruption. (Full article...)
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