Katyn... For the Pole, the name of this place in the Smolensk region speaks a lot. It speaks of the Soviet Union, the fate of Poland, and Soviet policy towards the Polish people. Russian readers of Leopold Yezhevsky's work learn about places such as Kozelsk, Starobelsk and Ostashkovo - Polish officers captured by the Red Army were kept there until April 1940; such, kyak Gnezdovou where thousands were brought, I returned only one; like Pavlishchev Bor and Gryazovets, those who later reported fourteen thousand missing got Kudya.