Video 76 Years Since Katyń

[saiga]

During the occupation by the Red Army of the eastern territories of the Second Republic of Poland almost 15,000 prisoners of war - Polish officers - in large part from the reserve had been detained in camps in Kozelsk, Ostashkov and Starobelsk. It should be noted that these officers were the elite of Polish society - among them were doctors, lawyers, teachers. March 5, 1940 Lavrenty Beria - People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR sent to Joseph Stalin note No. 794 / B in which, after defining the Polish prisoners of war (14,736 people) and prisoners in camps in western Belarus and Ukraine (18,632 persons, of which were 1,207 officers) were declared enemies of the Soviet power. Throughout April and May 1940 the Soviet forces then proceeded shooting 14,700 sentenced prisoners of war according to the note 794 / B, and 11,000 prisoners without being sentenced, without presenting charges, without any investigation and without indictment. 25,000+ people murdered, plain and simple.

They will never be forgotten.

Read more :
http://prawicowyinternet.pl/zbrodnia-katynska/
http://www.katyn-pamietam.pl/
http://www.muzeumkatynskie.pl/
http://www.pamietamkatyn1940.pl/
http://katyncrime.pl/
http://katyn.ipn.gov.pl/kat/publikacje/3646,dok.html

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[Felix]

what is 15.000 ..?

Estimates for the total number of people killed in the Red Terror range from 50,000 to over one and a half million ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror

 

[saiga]

what is 15.000 ..?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror

Not many compared to the Red Terror, until you start to lay them down side by side... and yes, there are many, many known crimes against humanity committed by the state itself, not only Russia (though there are millions who died during Stalin´s reign in USSR and Ukraine... the so much disputed holodomor, remember? and as far as European countries are concerned, I don´t think any other country matches that ). However, my Polish reenactor friends remember Katyń these days, so I thought we - here on Mi.net - could too.