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By Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik), Bolshevik Party, Bolshevik Center, Central Committee, RKP(b), Members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Executive Commission of the Bolshevik Party, Executive Committee of Bolsheviks, Provincial and Regional Party Committees of the RKP(b), Communist Party of the Soviet Union, CPSU, All-Union Communist Party, VKP(b), CC and CCC of the VKP(b), Central Control Commission of the VKP(b), Republic and Territorial (Regional) Control Commissions, Conference of the Russian Communist Party, Plenium of the Central Committee VKP(b) (Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party), RK VKP(b), Congress of the Communist Party, Central Committee of the VKP(b) (All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich

Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment

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Politburo Protocol no. 152: Instruction by Mikhail S. Gorbachev to the Prosecutor's Office and Other State and Party Agencies to Propose the Future Soviet Line on Katyn (Excerpt)

31 March 1989, Moscow

Text in the margin: “To be returned within one month to the CC CPSU (General Department, 1st Sector).”

No. P152/15

Top Secret

To the Smolensk Oblast Committee:

cc. Coms. Gorbachev, Ryzhkov, Medvedev, Chebrikov, Shevardnadze,

Yakovlev, Kriuchkov, Sukharev, Kapto, A. Pavlov,

This was not A. but V. S. Pavlov, Soviet finance minister, 1989–1991.

Falin

Excerpt from Protocol no. 152 of the Meeting of the Politburo

of the CC CPSU of 31 March 1989

On the Katyn Question 1. Instruct the Prosecutor's Office of the USSR; the Committee of State Security, USSR; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the Departments of State and Law; the International and Ideological [Departments of the CC CPSU], to present within one month a proposal for the future Soviet line on the Katyn question for consideration by the CC CPSU.

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2. In connection with the request of the Polish side to transfer symbolic ashes from the burial site of Polish officers in Katyn to Warsaw, I, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, grant permission for this [to be done].

Members of the Council for the Protection of the Memory of Combat and Martyrdom visited Katyn on 5 April. At a ceremony attended by Prelate Zdzisław Król, Polish military personnel, members of the Katyn Families Association, and newspaper correspondents, the delegates gathered some earth from the cemetery and brought it to Warsaw. The next day the earth was placed in urns with the name “Katyn” in the Warsaw Garrison Church. See Polish press accounts for 6–7 April 1989.

Secretary of the CC

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Document TitlePolitburo Protocol no. 152: Instruction by Mikhail S. Gorbachev to the Prosecutor's Office and Other State and Party Agencies to Propose the Future Soviet Line on Katyn (Excerpt)

AuthorRussian Communist Party (Bolshevik), Bolshevik Party, Bolshevik Center, Central Committee, RKP(b), Members of the Central Committee of the; Communist Party, Executive Commission of the Bolshevik; Party, Executive Committee of Bolsheviks, Provincial and Regional Party Committees of; the RKP(b), Communist Party of the Soviet Union,; CPSU, All-Union Communist Party, VKP(b), CC and CCC of the VKP(b), Central Control Commission of the; VKP(b), Republic and Territorial (Regional) Control; Commissions, Conference of the Russian Communist; Party, Plenium of the Central Committee VKP(b); (Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party), RK VKP(b), Congress of the Communist Party, Central Committee of the VKP(b) (All-Union; Communist Party (Bolsheviks); Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich

RecipientRussian Communist Party (Bolshevik), Bolshevik Party, Bolshevik Center, Central Committee, RKP(b), Members of the Central Committee of the; Communist Party, Executive Commission of the Bolshevik; Party, Executive Committee of Bolsheviks, Provincial and Regional Party Committees of; the RKP(b), Communist Party of the Soviet Union,; CPSU, All-Union Communist Party, VKP(b), CC and CCC of the VKP(b), Central Control Commission of the; VKP(b), Republic and Territorial (Regional) Control; Commissions, Conference of the Russian Communist; Party, Plenium of the Central Committee VKP(b); (Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party), RK VKP(b), Congress of the Communist Party, Central Committee of the VKP(b) (All-Union; Communist Party (Bolsheviks); The Courts

RepositoryAPRF

ID #f.3, sealed packet no. 1

DescriptionN/A

Date1989 Mar 31

AOC VolumeKatyn: A Crime Without Punishment

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