MOSCOW, April 20 - RAPSI. Josepf Stalin's grandson Yevgeny Dzhugashvili has appealed the State Duma resolution on the Katyn tragedy and its victims in the Supreme Court.

Pursuant to the lawsuit, "the offensive legal act presents false information diminishing Stalin's merits to Russia's authorities and citizens and the authorities and citizens of other countries."

Particularly, the resolution reads that the Katyn crime was committed under Stalin's direct order. Meanwhile, according to Dzhugashvili, a criminal case on the mass murder of the Polish POWs in Katyn was included in the indictment of Hermann Goering and Alfred Jodl at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. They were found guilty of committing the crime.

The applicant noted that he previously submitted a similar lawsuit to the Supreme Court, but the material was returned without any consideration with the offer to first refer to a district court.

The Soviet Union blamed the Katyn massacre on the Nazis, saying the killings took place in 1941 when the territory was in German hands. However, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev formally admitted in 1990 that the executions took place around 1940 by the NKVD.

In the 1990's, Russia handed over to Poland copies of documents from top-secret File No. 1, which squarely placed the blame on the Soviet Union. Last November, the State Duma approved a declaration recognizing the Katyn massacre as a crime committed by Stalin's regime.