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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For people like me wondering:

The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD in April and May 1940. Wikipedia

Not freed, just put under new management.