New documents on Soviet killings

28th May 2011

The documents claim that those found in the Augustow forest were eliminated

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Hundreds of Polish resistance soldiers who fought Nazi occupation were killed by Stalin’s feared secret police as the communists solidified their control of Poland in 1945, new documents claim.

Despite being allies in the war against Germany the Soviet Union allegedly murdered an estimated 600 members of the Polish Home Army, the largest underground resistance movement in occupied Europe, in one operation alone around the eastern region of Suwalki.

Russian historian Nikita Petrov unearthed wartime documents that allegedly revealed who ordered the murder of the Polish soldiers, who disappeared without trace in 1945.

According to the documents, Colonel-General Viktor Abakumov, comma ...

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