At the Museum of Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners of the Polish People’s Republic in Warsaw, we inaugurated the exhibition "By the Katyn Method…". The display tells the story of communist executions carried out on political prisoners held in the Mokotów prison in Warsaw. Between 1945 and 1955 alone, more than 200 people were executed there.

Research conducted at the museum shows that during the Stalinist period, death sentences issued by communist courts were carried out by at least seven functionaries. The exhibition presents who the executioners of Rakowiecka were and what brought them to this place. It also features the profiles of seven of the more than 200 victims of political crimes from 1945–1955 who were executed in the Mokotów prison.

"We owe the victims our remembrance and respect, but we are also obliged to speak about the perpetrators, about those responsible for what happened on Polish soil after 1944. We are not speaking only about the Stalinist period, because how are Śmietański and Drej any different from the functionaries who murdered Father Jerzy Popiełuszko? They are not. They too were executioners of the communist system,"-said Prof. Karol Polejowski, Deputy President of the Institute of National Remembrance.

Adrianna Garnik, the Director of the Museum of the Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners of the Polish People’s Republic, pointed out that works donated by artists from Belarus constitute an integral part of the exhibition.

The honorary guests of the event were the families of those murdered in the Mokotów prison.

The exhibition will be open to visitors until April 2026.