The Katyn massacre - the 1940 mass murder...

The reasons for this are clear and serve to illustrate an axiom of history: continued attempts to conceal the truth have the opposite effect. Archives don’t burn. In the case of Katyn, the truth finally emerged even though the facts were strictly classified.

In 1989, several Russian historians found traces of the “missing” officers while browsing through the archives. They searched through the record of the Soviet NKVD’s department for prisoners of war and internees and the records of soldiers who escorted prisoners in convoys.

Russian historians and archivists have done an enormous amount of work in the 20 years since the murdered officers were officially recognized as victims of Stalinist repression. They have declassified and published thousands of documents, from technical records documenting the everyday needs of inmates at the Starobelsk, Ostashkov and Kozelsk POW camps to the Politburo’s top secret resolution of March 5, 1940 to execute

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