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Podcast: WW2 Stories & Real War Stories
Episode: Buried Truth: The Katyn Massacre and History's Greatest Cover-Up
Description: You are now listening to World War 2 Stories. I'm your host Steve Matthews. Today, we're going to explore one of history's most chilling atrocities and the remarkable half-century conspiracy to conceal it from the world. This is the story of the Katyn Massacre – a crime so devastating and politically inconvenient that governments on both sides of the Iron Curtain would spend decades burying the truth alongside its victims.In the spring of 1940, approximately 22,000 Polish military officers, police commanders, intellectuals, and civil servants were systematically executed with a single bullet to the back of the head. Their bodies we...