"Katyn - The long kept secret" Warsaw Off The Beaten Path Tip by adin

The military cemetery (Cmentarz Wojskowy), not a regular tourist attraction, hides among other reminders of Polish history the story of the Katyn forest.
In mid 1940 the Russian communists murdered about 15000 Polish POW officers deported there after the Russian invasion in 1939. In 1942 the massive grave was unveiled by the Germans, who soon cynically used it to demostrate the Russian cruelty toward the Polish people.......
The Russians denied it, of course, saying that it was a vicious deed of the Germans.
Only in 1996 (I think), way after the fall of communism, the Russians admitted their responsibility and the Russian president brought to Poland the original document signed by Beriah (then the head of the NKVD, the secret police) with the instructions to murder all Polish POW officers.
The story of Katyn was not allowed to be mentioned during the communist regime in Poland, unless one had an urge to get a one-way ticket to Siberia without a passport.......
The monument and symbolic tombstone stands today in the military cemetery as a reminder of this event.

Bus 180, last stop.