The total number of victims is estimated at about 22,000. The victims were executed in the Katyn forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons, and elsewhere. Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, and the rest were arrested Polish Intellegentsia who the Soviets considered to be "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests"
The historical event that the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon period roughly corresponds with is C. the Roman pull-out from Britain. Both of these happened sometime in the 5th century.
The nation's founders believed that containing the government's power and protecting liberty was their most important task, and declared a new purpose for government: the protection of individual rights.
