In November 2010, the Russian State Duma took a big step toward healing a decades-old rift with Poland by officially accepting Soviet responsibility for the Katyn massacre — the mass killing of some 22,000 Polish military officers, religious figures, and intelligentsia in 1940.
RFE/RL: After 80 years, the ‘Katyn lie’ lives on in Russia
Flowers and candles rest on a memorial dedicated to the Katyn victims, to mark the 75th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland at the start of WWII, in Katowice, Poland on Sept. 17, 2014.
