Stalin’s Executioners - Katyn 1940 (2020)

*press CC for captions for a few non-english parts* On September 17, 1939, without having declared war, the Red Army invaded its eastern part of Poland. In accordance with the secret provisions of the Nazi-Soviet pact, Hitler and Stalin split their neighbor. In the process, the NKVD, the Soviet political police, organized the regrouping of Polish prisoners of war, mainly officers, and representatives of the intellectual elite in the monasteries of Kozielsk, Starobielsk and Ostashkov. In September 1943, while the Wehrmacht was bogged down in Stalingrad, Goebbels announced the discovery of a mass grave in the Katyn forest near Smolensk, on the Belarusian border. After setting up an international commission of inquiry, made up of forensic doctors from countries allied to Germany or under its control, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda attributes the execution by a bullet in the neck of several thousand Polish officers to the Soviet NKVD. But neither America nor England can afford to let go of their Russian ally, which fiercely denies its responsibility for the massacre and accuses the Nazis of it. This lie will last until 1990, on the eve of the collapse of the USSR...