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Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev, who is currently on an official visit to Denmark, has ordered Soviet files concerning the massacre of some 22,000 Polish officers, intellectuals and priests in the Katyn woods to be opened, Ritzau reports citing the National Archives in Moscow.
It was not until 1990 that Soviet officials admitted that Stalin’s secret police had carried out the mass execution, which deprived Poland of its military elite. Prior to that, Moscow had claimed that the massacre, discovered in Katyn woods by invading German forces, had been carried out by Nazi Germany.
