Posted on 09/20/2007 1:56:21 PM PDT by lizol
Russia denies Poland access to Katyn files
Thursday, September 20. 2007
Russia has denied Poland access to 180 historical files concerning the 1940 Katyn massacre – an event that divides Warsaw and Moscow to this day.
According to the daily Nasz Dziennk a definitive indictment of the role the NKVD, the Soviet government at the time and even Stalin himself played in the massacre - where over 20,000 Polish officers were murdered - will not be offered anytime soon by Poland’s National Institute of Remembrance (IPN), which is investigating the matter.
Poland insists that the executions of Polish prisoners of war after the Soviet invasion during WW II was ‘genocide’.
In November, 2005, after years of investigation, Chief Russian Military Prosecutor Alexander Savenkov announced, to Poles disbelief, that the criminal case was now closed because investigators didn’t find any evidence of genocide in the 1940 Katyn killings.
According to public prosecutor Malgorzata Kuzniar-Plota, who is conducting the investigation, a substantial amount of materials and the high number of witnesses still to be interviewed poses the main obstacle to issuing a final report by the Polish side.
The newspaper writes that the “detached” attitude of the Russian side towards sharing materials and evidence necessary for indictment to be formulated is yet another obstacle.
IPN is afraid that the investigation may come to a complete standstill if Russia refuses to open its archives.
Nothing to see here so move along or mother russia will shoot you too and place your dead body in a pit along with the other trouble makers.
Regardless of how many trouble makers there may be.
After all mother russia killed what 60million of their own in the past what difference is a few more thousand or so?
what a loving mother that russia is...
I would put another word after "mother." Hint: It starts with an 'F'.
I think I know what word you’re talking about...
After all mother russia killed what 60million of their own in the past what difference is a few more thousand or so?==
60 mlns? What a fairy tale? Let it be 100 it more dreadful that way:).
I think I know what word you’re talking about...==
I’d like to see 2 Poles who exercise thier wits:).
Lets turn to other task. Can you explain why the word which defines your people on English so resembles the word which defines the log of wood standing vertically?:)
Now a Russian has joined... Woe and behold, for the Triumvirate of Comedy has been formed :)
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