Les Bourreaux de Staline : Katyn, 1940
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets and details of which have only recently been partially revealed.
- genus: Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Studio: La Générale de Production, Silver Frame, ARTE, TVP
- keyword: world war ii, war propaganda, russian history, stalinism, state security, 1940s, state crimes, eve of world war ii, soviet union history, polish history
- cast: Cédric Tourbe, Dmitry Tokarev, Leon Trotsky, Lavrentiy Beria, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
