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Katyn Forest massacre 1940

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  1. Class of '42

    Class of '42 Active Member

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    I am sure most have heard about how the Soviet Union in April-May 1940, summary executed some 22,000 Polish POW's and buried them in mass graves just outside of Smolensk and when discovered by the Germans some three years later, the Russians blamed it all on them. Wasn't until 1990 that the Soviet Union finally opened up some of their archives and sort of admitted their guilt but even today it is still painful for the citizens of Poland to forget.

    Some of the 7,000 executions were personally carried out by one man...Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin of the NKVD with a shot to the head and called the most prolific executioner in history. He committed suicide in 1955 and I hope he and Beria are still rotting in hell as far as I'm concerned...that includes Stalin too.

    Katyn massacre - Wikipedia
    Vasily Blokhin: This is how the USSR turned the greatest executioner in history into a hero
     
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    Actually some Say the Soviet actual meaning was for 30,000 Finnish Officers to replace the killed Polish officers. I do not like neither but nothing new.
     
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    Reason I brought it up was because I believe I had some distant Polish relatives who might of been part of this tragedy. As mention elsewhere my father wanted go into Poland after the war and search around, he even took some Russian language courses in college to perhaps help out but he never made it over. My distaste for the Russians runs deep in the family.
     
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    I have read the Russians have after the conquer and divide of Poland in late Sept 1939 given to Germans the names and addresses of professors, teachers, priests, other intellectuels to be arrested etc in the German Zone of Poland.
     
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    Secret Supplementary Protocol to the German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty

    The undersigned plenipotentiaries, on concluding the German Russian Boundary and Friendship Treaty, have declared their agreement upon the following:

    Both parties will tolerate in their territories no Polish agitation which affects the territories of the other party. They will suppress in their territories all beginnings of such agitation and inform each other concerning suitable measures for this purpose.

    Moscow, September 28,1939.
    For the Government of the German Reich:
    J. RIBBENTROP
    By authority of the Government of the U.S.S.R.:
    W. MOLOTOV
     

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