Poles Mark Stalin's Katyn Forest Massacre

Las Vegas Sun ^ | March 05, 2005 | ELA KASPRZYCKA

[lizol]

Related thread, a "MUST SEE" category:

March, 5 - 65th ANNIVERSARY OF THE MASSACRE OF THOUSANDS OF POLISH OFFICERS IN KATYN.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

If you're familiar with Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago," you'll know that this was just the tip of the iceberg (and a pretty big iceberg at that) for the Soviets. They murdered at the very least 20,000,000 of their own people in the name of ideology. We can hardly expect that they'd have spared anyone else.

[skinkinthegrass]

We can hardly expect that they'd have spared anyone else.

..and Putin, Was the head of the KGB ("the Sword and Shield of the Soviet Communist Party") prior to the collapse of the USSR.

[Malesherbes]

From the many atrocities committed against Poland in World War II Katyn stands out as one of the most monstrous. "Never forgotten, never forgiven" is certainly appropriate. I know Poland remembers it; the rest of the world should remember it too - especially the Russians who still honor one of the criminals with a city named Kaliningrad.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Bump.

[TheSpottedOwl]

I read that book years ago, and it's one of many books I want to buy again. Outstanding account of the hell dissidents went through in the Soviet Union.

[EternalVigilance]

Was he actually the 'head of the KGB'?

[Grzegorz 246]

I think that he was a chief of the KGB in East Germany.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

For interesting reading, try "THE LONG WALK".. It's about a Polish Cavalry Lieutenant who returns to his village in Poland after Germany invaded Poland, except that it was now in the Soviet Union's portion.

The fact that he spoke both German and Russian freaked out the Soviets, and the Lt spent the next year in prison and then a year or so in the Siberian Gulag before he and six others escaped by walking from Siberia to India in the mid '40's..

[TheSpottedOwl]

They walked from Siberia to India? Good Lord. Sounds like a very good book. Thanks for the tip.

[lizol]

A chief or just one of regular agents in East Germany?

[skinkinthegrass]

Was he actually the 'head of the KGB'?

*smack to forehead*..My mistake..He was a Lt. Col. within the Organization under Gorby. He has many frm. KGB officers as Sr. advisers. One of his claims to fame is: He opposed the war in southern Russia/helped run down "the Rebels" in the years prior the 2000 elections. Many political foes were wary of him during the elections b/c of his connections to the KGB.

[JockoManning]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1356601/posts

[Grzegorz 246]

Sorry, not a chief, but not only a regular agent, besides in 98-99 he had been a chief of FSB before he became a PM.

[skinkinthegrass]

From Google (The Telegraph)..a Major for the KGB in Dresden, East Germany during the '80s. Was reputed to have "popped to cork" on the death gorby's predecessor...he was a fan of Western Merchandise/Sales Catalogs.

[skinkinthegrass]

..besides in 98-99 he had been a chief of FSB before he became a PM.

That was It, Thanks.

[DoctorMichael]

Two 'Stabs in the Back'.

[lizol]

Geez! You're kidding, is this an actual picture????

[Grzegorz 246]

What ?

[Grzegorz 246]

Putin is still not old, he was born in 1952, so in late 80's he had already been Lt.col in KGB, when he was only about 35-36. He worked in East Germany, also in Berlin, so he must have been completely trusted, because in this region he could have easily started working for the other side. I read that he said "I finally came back home", when he became a chief of FSB. Now in Russia thousands of former KGB/GRU officers work in administration, central and local institutions or in state owned companies, usually on high positions.