The World : Poles Visit Massacre Site
Polish army chaplains prayed for the first time at the site of a wartime massacre of Polish officers near the Soviet village of Katyn, Poland’s state-run television reported. About 20 chaplains, accompanied by a Soviet army honor guard, laid wreaths at the mass grave of more than 4,300 Polish officers captured by the Soviet army in 1939. The massacre has poisoned Polish-Soviet ties for decades. Moscow and Poland’s Communist authorities say the officers were killed by German troops during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, but most Poles reject this account.
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