Saturday, October 23, 2021

Katyń Memorial, Jersey City (Hudson County)


The Katyn Memorial is a bronze statue of a Polish soldier dedicated to the victims of the Katyn massacre in 1940. The Katyn Massacre was a series of mass execution of nearly 20,000 Polish military officers carried out by Joseph Stalin after Soviet Union troops had invaded Eastern Poland. The statue is of a solider, gagged and bound, impaled in the back by a bayoneted rifle, standing on top of a granite base containing Katyn soil. It's located in Jersey City.

 

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