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1Published 2007“…Duration: 01:57:00 "Katyń" is the name of the forest where the Soviet NKVD forces murdered 15,000 Polish officers, intellectuals and professionals over a 3-day period in 1940 (during which a 14-year-old Wajda lost his own father). …”
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2Published 2002“…Long before the beginning of the World War II, Kuznetzov, then an NKVD agent living under a different name, was already receiving invaluable information from the German embassy in Moscow. …”
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3Published 1997“…In the 1930's and the 1940's the KGB - then the NKVD - orchestrated the mass purges and consolidated immense resources and political power to permeate every aspect of Soviet reality.…”
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4Published 1989“…Later Berzin was interrogated by the new head of NKVD Nikolai Ezhov, and sentenced to death. After the arrest of Berzin, the Soviet intelligence service was severely purged.…”
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5Published 1949“…Kazakevich’s story hints that the soldiers prefer to die rather than return to base and face possible recriminations from the ever-vigilant NKVD, recriminations that could lead to accusations of desertion and cowardice, but this political dimension is glossed over in the film.…”