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the case was dismissed by the Moscow municipal court due to a report by the Russian prosecutors there were no records on the event in Russian military archives.

They say, that the evidence show only, that the NKVD took the Polish officers under their "custody". And there is no evidence, that they have been killed. Which is an obvious BS.

Is it the case that the Soviets later maintained that the Poles were criminals that were executed?

The prosecutor representing the Russian government also maintained, that many of the officers can't be rehabilitated, as they deserved what happened to them - being spies.

And he also says, that none of the officers can be rehabilitated, as they had not been sentenced by the Soviet court. They were shot in the head without any, even Soviet trial.

The Russian side also denies to recognize the Katyn massacre as the genocide - because they maintained, that Polish officers were killed not as Poles, but as the members of the social elite.

At the same time they maintain, that the massacre wasn't a war crime either - as there was no formal state of war between Poland and Soviet Union (actually the Soviets invaded Poland in 1939. joining the Germans, without declaring war).

Then - as you can see - this is a crucial Russian input into the wold's legal heritage (SARCASM)

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>>>>Then - as you can see - this is a crucial Russian input into the wold's legal heritage (SARCASM) <<<<

Russia is not alone. Two years ago, in case Alpern vs. Vatican Bank, legal counsel of The Holy See admitted that genocide of over 500 000 Serbs, Roma and Jews did take place in Croatia in WWII, admitted that Vatican aided and abetted perpetrators and hid the proceeds of the crime on their behalf, but claimed that Vatican's activities were not illegal, because Genocide was not sanctioned as a crime until UN Genocide convention was enforced in 1951.

Russia took the same line of defense.