Word: smolensk
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...regrettable that in its coverage of President Nixon's visit to Khatyn, the village near Minsk where 149 Byelorussians perished at the hand of the Nazis, the press ignored another massacre not far away. In Katyn, near Smolensk, more than 4,000 Polish officers taken prisoner by the Russians at the outset of the war were executed by NKVD troops in April...
...Before going off to fight the Germans in 1941, he was young, healthy, bright and idealistic. He had three years of polytechnical training behind him and a beckoning future in research or development, or perhaps even a prestige niche in Soviet middle management. But in March 1943, outside of Smolensk, a German bullet not only destroyed Zasetsky's future but eliminated most of his past as well...
...Georg Fleischmann, accused of directing the mass executions of Jews at Smolensk, was arrested in 1965 but never tried. Last July the public prosecutor's office announced that a case against several of Fleischmann's accomplices was finally ready for trial; Fleischmann himself died of natural causes...
...Poles were killed by the Nazis during World War II, and every night, candles burn in memorial along the streets of Warsaw. But the most shocking atrocity of all-the murder of at least 4,500 Polish army officers in the Katyn Forest near the Russian city of Smolensk in 1940-is the one that Poles are forbidden to commemorate. Reason: the Soviets have long been suspected of doing the shooting...
...rank of Marshal at the age of 45, won a reputation for tenacity and rigorous discipline if not for tactical brilliance He was called in to bolster the sagging Russian invasion of Finland in 1939 and led five armies plus 20 divisions in the famed battle of Smolensk in 1941. Though Timoshenko's troops were eventually defeated, his ten-week defensive stand ruined the Nazis' timetable and forced them into the bitter winter campaign for Moscow, which was a turning point...