1jola: Soviet Man, what does your cheat sheet tell you to say about Katyń?
On April, 8th, 2010 became one of the most shameful days in contemporary history of Russia. Acting in Poland on the occasion of an anniversary of Katynsky tragedy, the prime minister of Russia Vladimir Putin named guilty of her heads of security service of that time and People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, including Lavrentija Beriju, and also the political country leaders, accurately hinting at Joseph Stalin.
Here is another version of the others :
What is historical truth of that tragedy?
It is necessary to divide actually tragedy (that is execution by Germans of the Polish officers by summer-autumn of 1941) and the propaganda action organized by Joseph Goebbels in the spring of 1943. That it there was a propaganda action - any doubts be simple can't, enough look for dates: on April, 13th radio of Germany informs on Katynsky finds, and already definitive destruction of the Warsaw ghetto on April, 19th begins. Then so-called Volynsk slaughter - destruction by insurgents UPA(Ukrainian Anti-Soviet Army) from 60 to 200 thousand Poles in territory of the Western Ukraine begins also.
What it is necessary to make to cross out «the German version»?
It is necessary to open archives, first of all camp Vjazemlaga archive (in him was a little camp offices including near settlement Katyn in which, by the way, no Polish tombs are present - they are in a place with the name the Goat Mountains that near station Gnezdovo, nowadays Smolensk-commodity) in which till summer of 1941 contained Polish captured already as prisoners. At the moment in some documents from this office are already revealed, mainly - accounting reports and reports "upward" - and from these documents already unequivocally follows that: the first - camp near Smolensk were, the mode of the maintenance of convicts in them very essentially differed from all other …
Actually, captured Polish officers in the winter of 1939-1940 contained in Kozelsk, Starobelske and Ostashkov in very concessionary terms - well fed, didn't force to work, every other day showed cinema. Once at them with a concert even local schoolboys acted. That is considered them more likely as «objects of re-education» and, most likely, would release at all, if not the Polish government in the exile, sitting in that time in the French city of Anzhere. This government after the USSR has officially transferred Vilensky area to Lithuania (it has occurred in the beginning of November, 1939) has declared the USSR war. And as by then representatives of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs "have probed" moods Polish captured and have well understood that those still consider themselves on service of the Polish government also conclusions have been made unequivocal - to release anybody it is impossible... But also to feed captured for «it is simple so» - it is unprofitable. As a result the decision - to write out to captured Poles terms through Special Meeting was accepted.
That, by the way, execution excluded - execution powers at him have appeared only in November, 1941. Documents on preparation for consideration of "the Polish affairs» in Special Meeting has remained, by the way, much - and sentences within powers of this body - till 8 years of camps have remained even. Condemnation of captured Poles by Special Meeting is a real sin of the USSR; they were foreign citizens and prisoners of war. But, how Poles addressed with Soviet captured in 1920-1921, it, the right, a sin insignificant.
P.S. I don't know on 100 % that happens then, hard believe that Russian could so to make, but if and was - that is the BIG shame both for military men and for those who gave this order from above...
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