@Poloniusz, RT lecturing someone on democracy and exaggerating about calling someone "Nazis" is indeed laughable, given the present day context :D
American influence that favored their Western compatriots and left them with a lower standard of living
What kind of nonsense is this? :D
Didnt some of the Russian executioners end up being purged by Stalin and Chrustchev for unrelated reasons?
I have no idea, it's possible I suppose. Apparently they often died young or went crazy. I think I remember reading that some of them allegedly killed themselves, but whether they did or someone "helped" them to shut them up maybe - I guess only God knows (and Putin)...
The thing is that some of them got to live to the 1990s and RuSSians had this one chance after 50 years of lying to do
the right thing. But they didn't. The RuSSian investigation lasted till 2004
until all of the perpetrators died and the reason given for ending the investigation was that... the perpetrators died. The results of investigation got classified. So not only the families of Katyń victims didn't get any justice - they are still being denied the knowledge about the massacre which RuSSians have. The families and the whole of Poland:
fakt.pl/hobby/historia/kim-byli-oprawcy-z-katynia-niektorzy-zyli-jeszcze-w-latach-90/dtgc95z
RuSSians even refused to classify the Katyń massacre as a war crime. I have no words for this.