19th C Russian Mass Grave Found in Poland

Apart from the rhetoric, good article.
"The screaming skeletons of dozens of Russian soldiers who were killed during a battle 150 years ago have been discovered in a mass grave in eastern Poland.
The remains were unearthed by archaeologists on the site of the Battle of Zyrzyn, off the S17 Lublin-Warsaw expressway in Zerdz, eastern Poland.
The Russian soldiers had been transporting cargo worth 200,000 roubles (£2,500) when they were killed by Polish forces in 1863.
Photographs show the skeleton's mouths wide open as they lie alongside one another at the site of the battlefield.
Archaeologists believe that about eighty soldiers, presumed to be Russian, were buried in the mass grave.
Nearly 200 Russian soldiers were killed during the battle, with 282 captured as prisoners of war. Around 90 of the 500 soldiers managed to escape when they encountered Polish troops."
Skeletons of Russian soldiers found on site of battlefield | Daily Mail Online

 

The lack of respect for the "screaming" fallen Russian soldiers is mind boggling. It's not a freak show, those were real people - mostly peasants, forcibly conscripted for life, treated like garbage by their officers (who would pay dearly for that during the revolutions of 1905 and 1917). The came from all over Russia, there were certainly Poles and Jews among them.
Similarly their opponents weren't the Poles but Polish, Lithuanian, Belarusian insurgents desperately fighting for restoration of the conquered by the Russians Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

What is written there is mostly nonsense. The Russian soldiers didn't escape when they encountered Polish troops, they had fought valiantly against a superior force for three hours till their ammo ran out.
200,000 Czarist roubles (the sole reason for the battle) isn't worth £2,500 today - more like £500,000.