The Katyn massacre of 22,000 Polish officers was organized by whom?
Lavrentiy Beria
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Answer
Lavrentiy Beria was the head of the Soviet NKVD and personally organized the Katyn massacre, in which 22,000 Polish officers were killed in 1940. The massacre was carried out in the Katyn forest near Smolensk, in western Russia. The bodies of the victims were discovered by the Germans in 1943, and the Soviets denied responsibility for the massacre until 1990.
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