2010 AD., Poland, democratic Republic, 70th anniversary Massacre of Katyn commemorative, Warsaw mint, 2 ZÅ‚ote, KM Y 721.

Poland, 70th anniversary Massacre of Katyn commemorative, engravers: Ewa Tyc-Karpińska (obv.) and Urszula Walerzak (rev.), Warsaw mint, 2010 AD.,
2 Złote (ø 27mm / 8,07 g), aluminium bronze, “Nordic Gold“ alloy (Cu 89%, Al 5%, Zn 5%, Sn 1%), 8,15 g. theor. mint weight, mintage 1.000.000 , axis medal alignment ↑↑ (0°), plain edge with incuse insription "NBP" repeated in alternating orientation, separated by stars: NBP ★ NBP ★ NBP ★ NBP ★ NBP ★ NBP ★ NBP ★ NBP ★ ,
Obv.: RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA / mW / 20 - 10 / ZŁ 2 ZŁ , legends around Polish coat of arms: crowned eagle with spread wings (a white eagle, the national emblem of Poland), mint mark mW -monogram below r. claw.
Rev.: 70. ROCZNICA ZBRODNI / KATYŃSKIEJ / KATYN , legends above Polish uniform cap, engraver´s monogram in left field.
KM Y 721 .

Year / Mint Mark / Mintage
2010 / mW / 1.000.000

The Katyn massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, "Katyń crime"; Russian: Катынский расстрел Katynskij rasstrel, "Katyn shooting") was a series of mass executions of Polish nationals carried out by the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940. Though the killings took place at several places, the massacre is named after the Katyn Forest, where some of the mass graves were first discovered.

The massacre was prompted by NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all captive members of the Polish officer corps, dated 5 March 1940, approved by the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, including its leader, Joseph Stalin. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000. The victims were executed in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons, and elsewhere. Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers imprisoned during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, and the rest were Polish intelligentsia the Soviets deemed to be "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials, and priests".
The government of Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in April 1943. When the London-based Polish government-in-exile asked for an investigation by the International Committee of the Red Cross, Stalin immediately severed diplomatic relations with it. The USSR claimed the Nazis had murdered the victims in 1941 and it continued to deny responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the perpetration of the killings by the NKVD, as well as the subsequent cover-up by the Soviet government.

An investigation conducted by the office of the Prosecutors General of the Soviet Union (1990–1991) and the Russian Federation (1991–2004) confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres but refused to classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. The investigation was closed on the grounds the perpetrators were dead, and since the Russian government would not classify the dead as victims of the Great Purge, formal posthumous rehabilitation was deemed inapplicable.

In November 2010, the Russian State Duma approved a declaration blaming Stalin and other Soviet officials for ordering the massacre.

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