Public opinion on Katyń massacre during WWII in Poland 2020
In 2020, eight out of ten respondents (76 percent) in Poland, i.e., slightly less than ten years ago, thought that the Katyn massacre was still a burden on Polish-Russian relations. One-sixth (16 percent) stated it was irrelevant in this context. However, in March 2020, 78 percent of respondents believed that Russia did not sufficiently explain the circumstances of the Soviet NKVD massacre on Polish officers and intellectuals in Katyn Forest in 1940. It is estimated that over 21.7 thousand Polish citizens were executed in Katyn.
The term "Katyn massacre" refers to the mass shootings of Polish citizens, mostly Polish Army officers, as well as officers of the State Police and Border Protection Corps, carried out by the NKVD (the interior ministry of the Soviet Union) in the spring of 1940 in the east: in Katyn and other places such as Kalinin (today's Tver), Kharkiv, Minsk, and Kyiv. 2020 marks the 80th anniversary of these events.
The term "Katyn massacre" refers to the mass shootings of Polish citizens, mostly Polish Army officers, as well as officers of the State Police and Border Protection Corps, carried out by the NKVD (the interior ministry of the Soviet Union) in the spring of 1940 in the east: in Katyn and other places such as Kalinin (today's Tver), Kharkiv, Minsk, and Kyiv. 2020 marks the 80th anniversary of these events.
