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On April 7, a group of local activists from the pro-Kremlin National Liberation Movement (NOD) in the city of Tver near Moscow removed two plaques commemorating the 1940 mass execution of Polish POWs from the walls of the Tver Medical University, where the regional branch of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, was headquartered during WWII.The mass executions were part of what became known as the Katyn massacre, named after the village where most of the 22,000 Polish military officers and intellectuals were killed in April-May 1940.NOD representative Maxim Kormushkin, who took part in the plaques’ removal wearing a Soviet army-style outfit, told the local Tver News agency that this was a historic moment.""The thing is
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