Wajda begins filming Katyn movie (see pictures)

Radio Polonia ^ | 01.12.2006 | Robert Kusek

[lizol]

Yes, it is, theoretically.

The question is - whether it Polish actually - as Polish eagle is a crowned one, and the communists removed the crown.

Those people were Poles only by ethnicity. Those tortured and murdered by them were real Poles.

[PAR35]

By the way. Here are a couple of old threads on Jeeps in World War II.

The FReeper Foxhole Studies The Military Jeep - October 17th, 2003
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1002844/posts

The FReeper Foxhole Revisits The Military Jeep - Jan. 14th, 2005
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1320519/posts

[PAR35]

And here's the thread on the massacre:

The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Katyn Forest Massacre (Poland~1940) - October 13th, 2003
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1000151/posts

[FreedomPoster]

>>The Soviets were just as bad as the Nazis were, if not worse.

Just going by the numbers, they were considerably worse. As were/are the Red Chinese.

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

[FreedomPoster]

Yes, a fairly huge percentage of the Soviet's motorized transport was U.S. trucks. I don't have any references handy, but I'm thinking it was in the 75%-90% range. We gave them a *lot* of stuff in general, and trucks in particular.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Yep, through Lend-Lease. We shipped literally thousadns of vehicles, transports, and tanks to the Soviets through the ports of Vladivostok and Archanglesk. Without them, the Soviet supply lines would have ground to an inglorious halt.

[onyx]

BOOKMARK --- I want to see this film.

[colorado tanker]

One of the most dangerous services during WWII was the Merchant Marine and one of their most dangerous routes was the Murmansk run. A lot of Americans died keeping the Sov's supplied.

[PoParma]

Hallo dfwgator,

If I manage to get my picture of the Katyn statue from my dead hard drive, it will be a good companion to yours. I took it on the same spot in Jersey City, but with my beautiful WTC towers in the background.

Meantime would you please write it down how to post pictures here.

[Olejnik]

I'm looking into filming Katyn the movie as well, so I've been researching it for sometime. It's interesting to see how Wajda does it.

My grandfather was on his way to the forest, and made a run for it. He was also a Polish Officer and he heard rumors. As he was approaching the forest...he would hear gun shots going off...so him and four others managed to jump a small bridge and treked about 40 miles to towns and villages to where their families stayed.

I noticed that Andrew is looking at this from the Womens perspective. I'd like to mix the two together and do it from both women, and the men on the front line.

[Argus]

That looks like the Kaminsky Brigade, an SS unit of Russian renegades, not the ROA, which was a legitimate liberation army.

[lizol]

The one on the right, wearing black uniform has ROA badge on his arm.

[Argus]

None of Vlasov's ROA units were in Warsaw in 1944. A lot of Russians sewed ROA patches on without actually being part of that organization. There's a lot of confusion about it.