Exercises on the Katyn Massacre

The Katyn massacre resulted in the execution of around 22,000 Polish officers and intelligentsia place. This genocide was inserted in the context of the invasion and division of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union from:

a) of the Dayton Agreement

b) from the Treaty of Versailles

c) of the German-Soviet Pact

d) of the Treaty of Portsmouth

e) of the Geneva Convention

The Katyn massacre was conceived after the authorization given by Stalin in 1940. The Soviet leader had been convinced of the threat that the Polish prisoners allegedly posed by the head of the secret police (NKVD), who called:

a) Gueorgui Zhukov

b) Lavrenti Beria

c) Viatcheslav Molotov

d) Vasily Zaitsev

e) Ivan Serov

What were the names of the camps that held Polish prisoners when the Katyn massacre took place?

a)Dachau, Buchenwald and Treblinka

b) Jasenovac, Buchenwald and Ravensbrück

c) Starobilsk, Kozelsk and Ostashkov

d) Jasenovac, Kozelsk and Katyn

e) Katyn, Starobilsk and Treblinka

The families of officers were also targeted by the repressive policy of the Soviet Union. About 60,000 people were sent to prison camps:

a) in the Urals

b) in Kazakhstan

c) in the Baltics

d) in the Caucasus

e) in Ukraine

Letter C

The German-Soviet Pact was signed between Germany and the Soviet Union on August 26, 1939. This agreement established peace between the countries in the event of a war in Europe. Furthermore, he stipulated, in a secret clause, the division of Poland between these two nations. The invasion of Poland was eventually carried out on September 1, 1939 by Germany and, on September 17, 1939, by the Soviet Union.

Letter B

The head of the Soviet secret police was Lavrenti Beria. He decided on the execution of Polish prisoners in March 1940 on the grounds that the prisoners were members of counterrevolutionary organizations and that they would fight the Soviet Union as soon as they were released. With this reasoning, he convinced Stalin, who, in turn, gave the order for the execution of the nearly 22,000 prisoners.

Letter C

The three camps that housed Polish prisoners executed in the Katyn massacre were Starobilsk, located in Soviet Ukraine, and Kozelsk and Ostashkov, both located in Soviet Russia.

Letter B

The families of Polish prisoners killed in the Katyn massacre were sent to labor camps (gulags ) in Kazakhstan. These actions were commonplace measures of the Stalinist government, which throughout the 1930s sent thousands of people to forced labor camps in Siberia and elsewhere in the Soviet Union.