Historical Anniversaries and Remembrance Days

72 years ago, on 27 and 28 February 1945, the sixteen leaders of the Polish Underground State were arrested by NKVD and jailed in Lubyanka prison in Moscow. In a staged trial they were accused of collaboration with Nazi Germany, hostility to the Soviet Union and acting against the Red Army. In June 1945, the Soviet court delivered its verdicts - most of the accused were sentenced to prison. Three of them died before the end of their sentence, including the last Commander-in-chief of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa), Leopold Okulicki "Niedźwiadek".