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Katyn Rally

29.08.2009
Over 100 motor cyclists have left Warsaw for Katyń in Russia, the scene of the mass killing of Polish officers by Stalin’s NKVD police in 1940.  

The motorcyclists are to cover over 6,000 kilometers in 17 days, going through Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

The aim of the rally is to pay tribute to the victims of Soviet crimes and visit the sites of martyrdom, in Katyń and several other places. The participants are also to have meetings with Poles living in the countries on their itinerary. They have taken sets of books by Polish authors as gifts for them.

It is the ninth motor rally of its kind. The first one, in 2001, attracted less than fifty people. (mk/pg)