There were radicals, activists, intellectuals as well as common criminals, the usual power brokers, and always a mob lurking in the background.
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Phil Terrana,
Baltimore Sun,
20 Mar. 2025
The Soviets were accused of international war crimes consisting of the mass murder of thousands of Polish military officers and intellectuals in the spring of 1940 in a forest near Smolensk in the Soviet Union.
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