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The Polish "intelligentsia"—military officers, police, professors, lawyers, and doctors—intended to decapitate the Polish nation's leadership.

Locations of other mass burial sites discovered later. The Polish "intelligentsia"—military officers

Roughly 22,000 Polish nationals, including approximately 4,500 officers found in Katyn forest. 000 Polish nationals

The "Katyn Lie" finally began to crumble during the era of glasnost under Mikhail Gorbachev. including approximately 4

In April 1943, Nazi German forces occupying the region discovered mass graves in the Katyn forest near Smolensk. They publicized the find to drive a wedge between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union.