{"id":3751,"date":"2009-05-07T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2009\/05\/07\/katyn-monument\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:56:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:56:59","slug":"katyn-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/05\/07\/katyn-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"Katyn Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3248\/2524729688_d8b4ea57d8.jpg?v=0\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-public-exhibition.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"63\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Katyn Monument&#8221; by artist Tadeusz Janowski is located on the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps\/ms?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=104370647730957874265.00045aca7161c64643e93&amp;ll=43.638063,-79.444692&amp;spn=0.01261,0.022595&amp;z=16\">west side of town<\/a> where King Street West becomes Roncesvalles Ave and Queen Street West becomes The Queensway.\u00a0 Located in a largely Eastern European neighbourhood, the large stone structure with a crack running through its centre initially led me to believe it was a tribute to the destruction of the Berlin wall. Upon further investigation I found that it was nothing of the sort.<\/p>\n<p>The inscription on its side reads &#8220;In remembrance of fifteen thousand Polish prisoners of war who vanished in 1940 from the camps in USSR at Kozelsk, Ostashkov, Starobelsk. Of these over four thousand were later discovered in mass graves at Katyn, near Smolensk, murdered by the Soviet state security police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are several monuments to the Katyn Massacre through out the world. 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