The presidential plane was carrying a delegation to Katyn, to commemorate the mass murder of a previous Polish elite: the 20,000 reservist officers murdered by Stalin’s NKVD in 1940.
Sometimes the NKVD simply picked Polish-sounding names from the telephone directory, or arrested en masse all those attending a Polish church service.
有时内务人民委员会只在电话号码簿上挑一些发音像是波兰人的名字,或是成批逮捕去波兰教堂礼拜的人。
The presidential plane was carrying a delegation to Katyn, to commemorate the mass murder of a previous Polish elite: the 20, 000 reservist officers murdered by Stalin’s NKVD in 1940.