Ombudsman Wants Katyn Classified as Political Purge

Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin has called for the government to acknowledge that 22,000 Poles executed in Katyn forest and elsewhere by Josef Stalin’s henchmen in 1940 were victims of political purges — if relatives don’t sue. “We’ve got to put an end to it through complete transparency and the refusal of material claims,” Lukin said Friday, Interfax reported. He said Russia must declassify and hand over to Poland all documents […]