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Indirectly it was established how many persons must be on the list. A 1969 note of the chief of KGBAleksandr Shelepin to Nikita Khrushchev says that 7,305 Polish citizens were killed in Ukraine and Belarus. Since the number from the Ukrainian Katyn List is already known to be 3,435, the number of 3,870 was deduced. However unlike the Ukrainian list, the actual Belarusian list is not found yet, the Belarusian authorities being uncooperative.