“Here lie Soviet citizens burnt in the fires of Stalin’s repressions in the 1930s, Polish officers shot by secret order and soldiers of the Red Army executed by the Nazis during World War II. Katyn has inextricably linked their destinies. … They have been laid to rest, but they will not be forgotten, because it is impossible to erase from memory the martyrdom of these innocent victims and conceal the truth about these crimes”
Vladimir Putin At a commemorative ceremony at Katyn Memorial
