Tweet   The Katyn massacre, was a mass execution of Polish citizens ordered by Soviet authorities on March 5, 1940. The estimated number of victims is about 22,000. The victims were murdered in the Katyn forest, the Kalinin (Tver) and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere.  About 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 invasion of Poland, the rest being Poles arrested for allegedly being intelligenc More..e agents, gendarmes, spies, saboteurs, landowners, factory owners, lawyers, priests, and officials. Damn bastards Bolsheviks