Great post, thanks so much.
And now, good professor, can you explain the difference between the type of treatment illustrated here at the hands of the Soviets, versus what other Polish leadership & clergy were then experiencing at the hands of the Nazis?
This is not a trick question -- my understanding is they were pretty much the same, with possibly subtle differences in who & how people were murdered?
Obviously, Nazis would not employ a Jewish militia...
Truly you make a very good point. There is not a significant difference. The Soviets were guilty of many unjustified killings in their occupation of Eastern Poland too. I would say that a major difference is that they had not set up a specific branch of their government for the domination and mass murder of undesirables in the occupied areas like the Einsatzgruppen were set up for in Germany. They instead just delegated that task to already existing agencies.