Meantime, in the Soviet Union during the 1950s, head of KGB Aleksandr Shelepin proposed and carried out a destruction of many documents related to the Katyn massacre, to minimize the chances that the truth would be revealed.[75][76] Ironically, his 3 March 1959 note to Nikita Khrushchev, with information about the execution of 21,857 Poles and with the proposal to destroy their personal files, became one of the documents that were preserved and eventually made public.[75][76][77][78][b]
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From the late 1980s, pressure was put not only on the Polish government, but on the Soviet one as well.[by whom?] Polish academics tried to include Katyn in the agenda of the 1987 joint Polish-Soviet commission to investigate censored episodes of the Polish-Russian history.[2] In 1989 Soviet scholars revealed that Joseph Stalin had indeed ordered the massacre, and in 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev admitted that the NKVD had executed the Poles and confirmed two other burial sites similar to the site at Katyn: Mednoye and Piatykhatky.



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