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Tags: Donald Tusk, Politics, News, Poland, Vladimir Putin , Russia, World
 
Apr 7, 2010 09:35 Moscow Time
Vladimir Putin,Donald Tusk. Photo: RIA Novosti
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The Prime Ministers of Russia and Poland Vladimir Putin and Donald Tusk are due to attend events to commemorate the victims of the political repressions of the 1930s at the Katyn Memorial in the Smolensk region, in the west of Russia. The memorial was erected at the site of mass-scale executions, where Polish Army servicemen, among others, were gunned down back in 1940. According to the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of World History, more than 8,000 Soviet citizens are buried in the area of Katyn, the citizens that were executed by shooting from 1918 to 1953. Vladimir Putin feels that memory of the Katyn tragedy should certainly be cherished, but the tragedy should not overshadow Russian-Polish relations in the future. The Stalin-era crimes were also denounced in a joint statement by the two countries’ Presidents, a statement that the Russian and Polish leaders made when signing the 1992 Treaty on Friendly and Good-Neighbourly Cooperation.

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