Posted on 04/10/2010 4:24:57 PM PDT by AJKauf
Seventy years after the Katyn Massacre, the president of Poland — and many other Poles — have died on Russian soil.
“It is a damned place,” commented Aleksander Kwasniewski, the former Polish president and communist-turned-social democrat.
It’s difficult to disagree.
Katyn, the forest near the western border of Russia, which in 1940 became a mass grave for some 4,000 Polish Army officers and community leaders out of 20,000 first interned by the Soviet government following the 1939 Ribbentrop-Molotov carve-up of Poland and then subsequently murdered by the KGB’s predecessor on Stalin’s orders, has tragically claimed more Polish victims almost exactly seventy years later.
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Even though the Poles had inferior equipment to the French, when the Germans invaded they fought like tigers. It was only the Russians attacking them from the rear that broke their backs. That’s one area where Uncle Joe and Herr Mustache found common ground- mass murder.
Yes, well I’m sure the Russian will investigate this entire matter. LOL
And they'll blame the Germans.
Well it worked before.
Wow.. thanks for posting this. It certainly adds a little depth to the situation in Poland at the moment...
In 1989, with the collapse of Soviet Power, Premier Gorbachev finally admitted that the Soviet NKVD had executed the Poles, and confirmed two other burial sites similar to the site at Katyn. Stalin's order of March 1940 to execute by shooting some 25,700 Poles, including those found at the three sites, was also disclosed with the collapse of Soviet Power. This particular second world war slaughter of Poles is often referred to as the "Katyn Massacre" or the "Katyn Forest Massacre".
Russians learned from history, the Poles did not. What worked 70 years ago works today.
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