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Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin (Russian: Васи́лий Миха́йлович Блохи́н; 19 January [O.S. 7 January] 1895 – 3 February 1955) was a Russian Soviet secret police official who served as the chief executioner of the NKVD under the administrations of Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolay Yezhov and Lavrentiy Beria.
The Katyn massacre [a] was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD (the Soviet secret police), at Joseph Stalin's order in April and May 1940.
Other evidence cemented the War Crimes Bureau's belief that Stalin had given secret orders about the massacre of POWs. [31]: 162–210 Unlike with the execution of Polish POWs at Katyn, however, no such directive attributed to Stalin or top Soviet officials, concerning Germans, have been found. However, despite the non-existence of such order ...
In 1940, Stalin ordered the execution of over 20,000 Polish prisoners-of-war and prison inmates in what became known as the Katyn massacre, a crime that the Soviet Union denied until 1990. The case concerned whether Russia violated the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in 2004 by discontinuing the investigation and by classifying some ...
A video game walkthrough is a guide aimed towards improving a player's skill within a particular video game and often designed to assist players in completing either an entire video game or specific elements. Walkthroughs may alternatively be set up as a playthrough, where players record themselves playing through a game and upload or live ...
According to Norman Davies, the Khatyn massacre was deliberately exploited by the Soviet authorities to cover up the Katyn massacre, and this was a major reason for erecting the memorial – it was done in order to cause confusion with Katyn among foreign visitors. [18] In 2004, the Memorial was renovated.
[15] 22,000 Polish military personnel and civilians were killed in the Katyn massacre, [2] [19] but thousands of others were victims of NKVD massacres of prisoners in mid-1941, before the German advance across the Soviet occupation zone. In total, the Soviets killed tens of thousands of Polish prisoners of war.
Katyn massacre memorials (6 P) V. Katyn massacre victims (39 P) Pages in category "Katyn massacre" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.