ConstantineK: More than 30000 Russians were tortured there by polish authorities.
This persistant troll or shill can't even get the communist lies straight.
How does one justify Katyń? Not easy, but one must try, so they invent "crimes." From your own link, troll:
The issue was finally settled in 2004, where a joint team of Polish and Russian historians (prof. Waldemar Rezmer and prof. Zbigniew Karpus from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and prof. Gennady Matveyev from Moscow State University), after reexamining documents from Polish and Russian archives published their results (printed in Russia by Federal Agency for Russian Archives). Their findings show that the number of Russian POWs can be estimated at between 80,000 and 85,000, and that the number of deaths in the camps can be estimated from 16,000 (Karpus, Rezmer) to 20,000 (Matveyev). Existing documents and proofs does not also confirm thesis made by many Russian historians that Russian POWs were specially exterminated in Polish camps because of their nationality, religion or other issues.[1][8] They also show that the main cause of death were various illnesses and epidemics (influenza, typhus, cholera and dysentery), noting that these diseases also took a heavy toll among fighting soldiers and the civilian population.[1].
A similar number of Polish POWs - about 20,000 out of about 51,000 - died in Soviet and Lithuanian camps.[9
In communist times, not so long ago, you couldn't even discuss Katyń, but the communists provided a substitute: Chatyń. This you could talk about.
A memorial complex commemorating the victims of the annihilation of the entire village of Chatyn (Khatyn), northeast of Mensk, during the German occupation of Belarus. In March 1943, Chatyn's 26 houses with their inhabitants (149 people, including 75 children) were burned by a German battalion. The vast memorial, spreading over 50 hectares, was opened in 1969 and became a major visiting place for local and foreign tourists and delegations.
. . . the Soviets obliterated references to [the] Katyn [forest, etc.] on maps and in official reference works. Then, in 1969, Moscow did something strange that many believe was further calculated to confuse the issue further: it chose a small village named Chatyn (Khatyn) as the site for Belarus's national war memorial. There was no apparent reason for the selection. Chatyn was one of 9,200 Belarusian villages the Germans had destroyed and one of more than a hundred where they had killed civilians in retaliation for partisan attacks. In Latin transliteration, however, "Katyn" and "Chatyn" (Khatyn) look and sound alike, though they are spelled and pronounced quite differently in Russian and Belarusian. When President Nixon visited the USSR in July 1974, he toured the Chatyn memorial at his hosts' insistence. Sensing that the Soviets were exploiting the visit for propaganda purposes, The New York Times headlined its coverage of the tour: "Nixon Sees Chatyn, a Soviet Memorial, Not Katyn Forest." (The Times probably got it right. During the Vietnam war, the Soviets frequently took visiting US peace activists to Chatyn.)
Source: The Katyn Controversy: Stalin's Killing Field by Benjamin B. Fischer at the US government's CIA Web site, CSI Publications (Apr 14, 2007).
http://www.belarus-misc.org/history/chatyn.htm
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatyn_massacre
This kind of thing continues in some communist circles and thus you get threads like this. Commmunists in Russia still agrue that the Germans are responsible for Katyń. They will invent something else soon.
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