Wybrane międzynarodowe wątki dotyczące zbrodni katyńskiej

The crime perpetrated in Katyń emerged in international politics during the times of World War II, but the Allies did not recognise the basic facts concerning the Soviet genocide perpetrated upon the Polish officers in Katyń. An objective stand upon the events which happened in Katyń was not taken with regard to the USSR. The present article, which has the nature of an overview, presents some of the aspects of the Katyń crime in the political and social history of the USA, Great Britain and Sweden. The denial or the tendency to pass over in silence the Soviet agency of this act of genocide met with animated social opposition of the representatives of the Polish community in the West. The latter used their own resources to sent a message of the truth about the events in Katyń to the citizens of some of the democratic countries in the West through the mass media and to commemorate the victims of the crime perpetrated in Katyń e.g. through the construction of monuments.