the red army simply burned them, smolensk was liberated, and a commission led by academician nikolai burdenko took up investigations during the opening of these burials , german bullets were found, in addition to letters that were written after the arrival of the germans. the commission came to the conclusion that the dead are prisoners who did not have time to evacuate. when retreating. they turned out on the territory occupied by the germans and were shot by the nazis, katyn. the execution appears in the indictment of the international tribunal at nuremberg section three war crimes and sounds like this in september 1941. in the kadyr forest, near smolensk, the nazis carried out mass murders of polish captured officers. well, this, in principle, could be put an end to, but the nineties come and on april 13, 1990, the president of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev, hands over to the president of poland, who arrived in moscow, wojciech yaruzinsky, nkvd stage lists with captured poles from kozelsk, astashkovo and starobelsk, which do not contain any information about the execution, which did