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English: The Katyn Memorial on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, UK.

Inscription Reads: In memory of 25,000 Polish prisoners of war and professional classes who were murdered on Stalin's orders by the Soviet Secret Police in 1940 at Katyn Forest, Kharkov, Miednoye, Kozielsk, Starobielsk, Ostaszkov and elsewhere.

Finally admitted in 1990 by the USSR after 50 years of shameful denial of the truth.
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Camera location52° 44′ 47.07″ N, 2° 01′ 51.39″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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