The Katyn Memorial at Gunnersbury Cemetery, Chiswick, England
Pictures and text kindly sent to me by Andrzej Kuras from London
The wording on the memorial is:
The conscience of the world calls for the truth (from the Polish)
In rememberance of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war who disappeared in 1940
from camps at Kozielsk, Starobielsk and Ostaszkow of whom 4,500 were later
identified in mass graves at Katyn near Smolensk.
The wording on the plaques is:
This casket contains soil from their grave.
Murdered by the Soviet secret police on Stalin's orders 1940. The soil
hereunder came from their graveyard 1990.
As finally admitted in April 1990, by the USSR after 50 years shameful
denial of the truth.
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"The Soviet memory hole"
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