Stalin Executed 22,000 Polish Officers Then Blamed The Nazis For 50 Years

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Did you know Stalin once ordered the execution of 22,000 people in just 2 months and then blamed it on the Nazis for 50 years? [music] In 1940, the Soviet secret police received a chilling order: execute every Polish prisoner in their custody, officers, intellectuals, [music] anyone who could lead. They loaded them into cattle cars like animals, >> [music] >> hands bound with barbed wire, transported to remote forests. At Katyn, NKVD executioners [music] worked in shifts. Each prisoner was shot once in the back of the head, assembly-line style. 22,000 bodies buried [music] in mass graves. When the Germans discovered the graves in 1943, Stalin saw his chance, blamed the Nazis. Even at the Nuremberg trials, the Soviets maintained this lie. The world [music] believed them. For 50 years, families never knew what happened to their loved ones. It wasn't until 1990 that Gorbachev finally admitted the truth. [music] Stalin had systematically eliminated Poland's entire leadership class. Every person who could organize resistance, gone in 2 months, hidden for 5 decades. The Katyn massacre remains one [music] of history's most calculated acts of genocide.