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Right, the Soviets did the massacre (though perhaps the number is slightly inflated for various reasons). The people massacred were military officers, members of the Polish upper class who the Soviets identified as a serious hazard, because they were very liable to side with the Nazis over the communists, and after interrogating many of them and separating out the ones they identified as not being hazards, they killed the remainder, which was several thousand people.
I am inclined to say that there were better solutions, that the officers could surely have been sent to Siberia or something, but that it wasn't just the Soviets killing for fun or for a punitive purpose, much less some of the other ridiculous motivations sometimes ascribed to the event (like "attacking Polish culture" because the officers were upper class and therefore disproportionately academics, etc. outside of their military careers).