Ukraine have spiralled in recent days with the brutality of troops being likened to ISIS.Yesterday (April 3) a mass grave containing the bodies of 57 civilians was found in the town of Bucha, near to Kyiv, where Russian troops have been forced out.The latest grave was found with several corpses only partially buried or not buried at all while bodies of men, women and children were also seen strewn across roads.There have also been reports of Russians executing unarmed Ukrainians, some of them children.
Reacting to the developments on Twitter, Stalin historian Simon Montefiore said the barbarity was not unlike that which the former Soviet leader was famed for.
He said: "Today in 1940, Stalin & Beria started the murder of 22000 Poles in Katyn Forest. "It took 28 nights & the chief executioner wore a butcher's apron over his NKVD uniform. "As we absorb todays Russian killings of Ukraine civilians, it’s hard not to think of the past."The Katyn Forest massacre is remembered as one of World War Two's most brutal episodes for good reason.
Shortly after Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin had carved up Poland between them, the Russian dictator ordered the mass execution of every captured Polish officer as well as the country's intelligentsia.
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