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The Katyn massacre that was initiated in March of 1940 by NKVD Chief Lavrentiy Beria, and approved by Stalin and the USSR Communist Party to execute about 22,000 citizens. Among the captured were Polish military officers, police officers, intelligence agents, doctors, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials, and priests in the Katyn Forest in Russia. Victims were driven to the woods by truck loads, then tied up their hands behind their backs, and then they were shot in the back of the head. On December 29, 1989, the USSR Congress of People acknowledged the secret protocols of one of the most unambiguous cases of genocide in the history of the twentieth century. In November 2010, the Russian State Duma approved a declaration

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