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The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets and details of which have only recently been partially revealed.
Leon Trotsky
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Lavrentiy Beria
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Felix Dzerzhinsky
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Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
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Genrikh Yagoda
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Joseph Stalin
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Nikolai Yezhov
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Kliment Voroshilov
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Vyacheslav Molotov
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Anastas Mikoyan
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Lazar Kaganovich
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Mikhail Kalinin
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Władysław Sikorski
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Winston Churchill
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Ivan Maisky
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Anthony Eden
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Władysław Anders
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Joseph Goebbels
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Georgi Malenkov
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Richard Nixon
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Lech Wałęsa
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Wojciech Jaruzelski
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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