About the book: 2016 / The Katyn tragedy, while remaining a sore point in Russian-Polish relations, has not yet been properly investigated. Having studied the documents related to the execution of Polish citizens in the forest near Smolensk, Yuri Mukhin convincingly proves the non-involvement of the Soviet Union in this war crime and asks the questions: who in the early 1990s. did the Russian authorities need public repentance for what they “did”? How and by whom were “irrefutable evidence” of the guilt of Stalin’s secret services fabricated? And who really should answer to Polish and Russian citizens? Emotionally acute assessments of both the activities of the Goebbels brigade and the historical accuracy of “package number one”, handed over in 1992 by the head of the Russian Archives Committee Lech Walesa, are dictated by the author’s civic position: “Indecent to be impartial in relation to the enemies of your Motherland, and they are enemies, and I am not an “impartial researcher” to them, but an enemy».