MOSCOW, April 25 - RAPSI, Diana Gutsul. Stalin's grandson Evgeny Dzhugashvili has applied to the Main Military Prosecutor's Office to resume the proceedings in the Katyn case.

The application states that Criminal Case No. 159 was under the office's investigation between 1990 and 2004.

"The European Court of Human Rights in its judgment dated April 16, 2012 in the Janowiec and Others v. Russia case, referring to Criminal Case No. 159 documents provided to Poland, allegedly established that my grandfather is guilty of the Katyn crime," he stated in his appeal.

Dzhugashvili said the court thereby declared his grandfather guilty of a crime without passing a verdict.

In hope to rehabilitate Stalin, Dzhugashvili wants the investigation to resume the case and supplement it with an indictment remanding it to court for open consideration and sentencing.

The Soviet authorities blamed the Katyn massacre on the Nazis, stating that 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 in 1940 by the NKVD.

In the 1990s, 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 adopted a declaration recognizing the Katyn massacre as a crime committed by Stalin's regime.