The Katyn Massacre
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However, as with many other things which exist there are exceptions to the rule and the Katyn Massacre is one of those things my mind views as appropriate toward that end ...
Those atrocities committed by the Stalin regime on the Polish people are at once horrific, genocidal, and I personally feel that those repercussions of such unmitigated inhumanity have never been realized for those who denied the right to be a person to so many in that cruety which was often elemental to the Stalin government.
The Katyn massacre or "Katyn execution by shooting consisted of several mass executions of the Polish military officers and intelligentsia carried out by the NKVD "People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", aka the Soviet secret police commencing in April and and continuing through May 1940.
These murders happend at several locations however the atrocity is named after the Katyn Forest that location of first discovery of mass graves resulting from a military force.
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There were about 22,000 victims executed in the Katyn Forest of Russia as well as the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and other places.
The multi-ethnic Polish state resulting in the murder of Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Polish Jews.
Nazi Germany announced the discover of mass graves in the forest in April 1943 and the Red Cross intervention and investigation resulted in Stalin terminating diplomatic relations with it. The USSR said the Nazis did the atrocities, denying them through about 1990 when they were acknowledge and condemned by the Soviet government.
In November 2010, the Russian State Duma approved a declaration blaming Stalin and other Soviet officials for ordering the massacre.
Far too little way too late. This is the worst crimes against humanity ever perpetrated without sufficient consequence for those both instigating and involved in the atrocities.