Posted on 09/10/2012 10:25:03 AM PDT by dfwgator
The American POWs sent secret coded messages to Washington with news of a Soviet atrocity: In 1943 they saw rows of corpses in an advanced state of decay in the Katyn forest, on the western edge of Russia, proof that the killers could not have been the Nazis who had only recently occupied the area.
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Again, I would tend to agree with not revealing it publicly during the war...but certainly I would have threatened to reveal it after the war, unless the Soviets made concessions regarding Eastern Europe.
How many went into the USSR, never to be seen again?
I would think pretty much the Auschwitz Kommandant’s testimony at Nuremberg would pretty much settle that question. There is plenty of evidence of mass graves at Treblinka which would corroborate the Nazi atrocities.
It was blood-soaked, murderous, Communist shit like this that pissed General Patton off so frequently.
He created an uproar with the US government hierarchy and their Soviet buddies, and then General Patton suddenly "died in a car accident."
FDR? The guy with all the Soviet spies working under him? The guy who had Alger Hiss by his side at Yalta?
FDR, the so-called great American president/dictator, who knew nothing of all the Soviet activities conducted stateside on his watch?
The Communists HATED educated people from Poland, Romania and so forth.
They were deemed a threat and considered dangerous, and the fact that they were murdered by the advancing Russians comes as no surprise to me.
His written reports (there were two) have vanished.
Their aim was to eliminate a military and intellectual elite that would have put up stiff resistance to Soviet control. The men were among Poland's most accomplished officers and reserve officers who in their civilian lives worked as doctors, lawyers, teachers, or as other professionals. Their loss has proven an enduring wound to the Polish nation.
Sounds very much like what what the Khmer Rouge were to do later in Cambodia, such policy being part and parcel of the inhumanity that is called Communism.
Anyone ever hear of the world, led by the US, demanding justice for these victims and other victims of Soviet atrocities, as was done with the Nazis? Of course not.
Now to be somewhat fair, it also wasn’t very good to be a Red Army Officer under Stalin.
I recently saw a documentary about the Siege of Leningrad, and we learned in the end, that basically Stalin had all of the “heroes of Leningrad” shot after the war.
FDR had “flexibility”.
How sad it must be to have to be you.
So what should we do?
Atrocities committed by a government that no longer exists, covered up by US officials who are long dead.
What’s our next course of action?
There’s enough trouble going around without trying do worry about things that happened 4 wars ago.
IMO.
What did Pol Pot do to the educated people of Cambodia?
Your comment was amazingly dismissive of the human suffering of the Poles. Just dismissing what took place with the equivalent of saying, “Sh*t happens”, is appalling.
And as to what we should do? We should acknowledge the truth and remember the dead and work to make sure no such thing happens again.
Well, yes and no. Had we adopted the Russian "tactic" of staging a brutal, all-out slugfest - yes. But our Generals would have employed entirely different hit-and-run tactics that would have tend to minimize American casualties...and Germans would have been far more willing to surrender to Americans than to fight to the death, knowing what awaited them in Soviet captivity.
Thank you for demonstrating your ignorance. 20,000 Polish officers and other members of the Polish intelligentsia were arrested AFTER Stalin's Red Army divided Poland with Hitler.
They were not the victim of an "atrocity during all-out war" as you say. They were arrested, taken in truckloads to a forest and murdered.
Twenty thousand or more of them.
Now, go back to your regular programming, which, judging by your stupid remark, is probably "The Price Is Right" or "Family Feud."
And everyone that followed him. Even Ronaldus Magnus.
Shame on all of them. May God have mercy on their souls.
Exactly. I’m surprised to see such a stupid remark as the one Bratch made on FR.
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