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The Katyn Memorial
Pictures sent by Andrzej Kuras of London
Gunnersbury Cemetary, Chiswick, England
The wording on the memorial is: The conscience of the world calls for the truth (from the Polish) in rememberence of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war who dissappeared in 1940 from camps at Kozielsk, Starovielsk and Ostaszhow of whom 4,500 were later indentified in mass graves at Katyn near Smolensk.
The wording on the plaques is: The casket contains soil from their grave. Murdered by Soviet secret police on Stalin's orders in 1940. The soil hereunder came from their graveyard in 1990.
As finally admitted in April 1990, by the USSR after fifty years if shameful denial of the truth.
Thank you.