The Katyn Memorial on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, UK.

Inscription Reads:
In memory of 25,000 Polish prisoners of war and professional classes who were murdered on Stalin's orders by the Soviet Secret Police in 1940 at Katyn Forest, Kharkov, Miednoye, Kozielsk, Starobielsk, Ostaszkov and elsewhere.

Finally admitted in 1990 by the USSR after 50 years of shameful denial of the truth.

About the memorial:
Situated on a small road off Camp Road, Cannock Chase, in Remembrance of 25.000 Polish Prisoners of War. Rock with a model of a bird in flight at the top also the Polish emblem and the Polish Flag are shown. Written on what appears to be marble in gold lettering. Bricked paving up to and around the Memorial

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Elevation 260 m

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Location: Brocton, Stafford, Staffordshire, West Midlands Region, England, United Kingdom

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