The Katyn massacre - the 1940 mass murder...
the officers.As a result, four volumes of documents have been published, and Russian and Polish historians collaborate on new publications every year.
The Katyn massacre forces us to confront the history of Russian-Polish relations in the 20th century again and again.
The relationship between Russian and Poland has passed through several phases. There was the Soviet-Polish war of 1920, with thousands of Red Army soldiers taken prisoner and killed; the Munich agreement and Poland’s stance on the matter; the debate over Poland at the English-French-Russian talks in summer 1939; the dramatic consequences of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact; the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Soviet position; the allies’ battle over Poland’s future in 1945; the Soviet socialist model winning out in Poland; and the collapse of Polish communism – these are the watershed events in Poland’s history and its relations with the Soviet Union.