[redgolum]

So what was it revenge for? I don’t get it.

[lizol]

In the beginning of 90s,, when Gorachev was to reveal the truth about Katyn massacre he ordered Soviet historians to find something to counter the horrible image of that crime - some kind of "anti-Katyn".

And they found those Soviet POWs, who died in Poland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camps_for_Russian_prisoners_and_internees_in_Poland_(1919-1924)