Good film about how the Soviets under Stalin executed 22,000 Polish Army officers with a bullet in the back of the head in 1939.
What the movie does not show though is how Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin all conspired against the Poles to seize Poland and carve it for Stalin after the war.
Roosevelt and Churchill hid the murders from the U.S. and British people in order to keep the Soviets fighting against the Germans and silence the Poles in the U.S. and Britain, who would have been outraged.
Katyn - Movie Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DrgSHIJXAQ
Add to Poland everything east of Germany plus Austria, in addition to the tens of thousands of Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians, and even Americans and Brits "repatriated" to Stalin then subsequently sent to the GULag, or murdered outright.
Can you read a map? If you can, tell me how we could have done anything at all substantive to stop Stalin from doing whatever he wanted with Poland.
We could, of course, have refused to legitimize it, and that might very well have been worthwhile. But the Allied leaders were still focused, rightly IMO, on finishing off Hitler. One war at a time is always good advice.
Roosevelt and Churchill hid the murders from the U.S. and British people in order to keep the Soviets fighting against the Germans
A not at all irrational POV, given that Stalin had previously signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler when the western allies got the bright idea of encouraging them to fight each other to exhaustion.
Best film about the topic, IMO.
TOTALLY CHILLING.