Well, they’re right about one thing: the massacre wasn’t a genocide, which is the wholesale murder of a whole people.
True, but doesn’t the killing of almost an entire peoples intelligencia ammount to a surgical genocide against that
people as a nation?
Anyway how clever of those Nazis, first they sneak 14,000 polish prisoners out of soviet prisoner of war camps then
kill and bury them on land controlled at the time by soviet forces, amazing! On land I might add that was the site of a
KGB “rest house”.
“...since the ropes used for tying the victims’ wrists and bullets were not those used by the NKVD.”
Right the NKVD used other ropes and bullets on their victims......hahahahah.
Note, “KGB” rest house actually NKVD.
Are you saying that the group of officers murdered by the Soviets in Katyn contained most of Poland's inteligencia? They were definitely an important part of it, but to say they were most of it is a bit insulting to the Polish nation.
Anyway how clever of those Nazis, first they sneak 14,000 polish prisoners out of soviet prisoner of war camps then kill and bury them on land controlled at the time by soviet forces, amazing! On land I might add that was the site of a KGB “rest house”.
Oh yes, I agree, the Russian claims are absurd. Of course the Soviets did it. No honest person would deny that. Why Putin would go to such lengths to deny obvious reality is really beyond me. I mean, seriously, what does he think this denial will accomplish? All it does is make him look stupid.
I wouldn't cal it a genocide in itself, but if the goal was to take out the leadership and then "ethnically cleanse" Poland, it might have been preparation for one.
My understanding -- and it's been a while since I've read much about it -- is that the Soviets' intention was to clear their most credible opponents out of the way to make it easier to install a puppet government they had in waiting. That would fit the pattern of the rest of Eastern Europe, North Korea and Southeast Asia when the Japanese left, and in various former colonies around the world. They had trained cadres ready to move into any power vacuum.