Katyn

Deux extraits de Katyn d'Andrzej Wajda.

The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, 'Katyń crime'), was a mass execution of Polish military officers, policemen and civilian prisoners of war ordered by Soviet authorities on March 5, 1940. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, with the most commonly cited number of 21,768. The victims were murdered in the Katyn forest in Russia, the Kalinin (Tver) and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere. About 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, the rest being Poles arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, spies, saboteurs, landowners, factory owners, lawyers, priests, and officials." Since Poland's conscription system required every unexempted university graduate to become a reserve officer, the Soviets were able to round up much of the Polish intelligentsia, and the Jewish, Ukrainian, Georgian and Belarusian intelligentsia of Polish citizenship.

Originally, "Katyn massacre" referred to the massacre at Katyn Forest, near the villages of Katyn and Gnezdovo (ca. 19 km west of Smolensk, Russia), of Polish military officers in the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp. It now is applied to the simultaneous executions of POWs from geographically distant Starobelsk and Ostashkov camps, and the executions of political prisoners from West Belarus and West Ukraine, shot on Stalin's orders at Katyn Forest, at the NKVD (Narodny Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, the Soviet secret police) headquarters in Smolensk, at a Smolensk slaughterhouse, and at prisons in Kalinin (Tver), Kharkiv, Moscow, and other Soviet cities.

Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943. The revelation led to the break up of diplomatic relations between Moscow and the London-based Polish government-in-exile. The Soviet Union continued to deny the massacres until 1990, when it finally acknowledged the massacre by the NKVD, as well as the subsequent cover-up. The Russian government admitted Soviet responsibility for the massacres, yet does not classify this action as a war crime or as an act of genocide. This acknowledgement would have necessitated the prosecution of surviving perpetrators, which is what the Polish government had requested. In addition the Russian government also does not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, which bars formal posthumous rehabilitation.

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[Murdock1512]

Nowdays we have got a different life. These days are past. We can't think all the time what happend 70 years ago. Me as a Pole forgive germans and russians what they did to us. The thing is that these historical facts will never be forget.

[Lardon2]

We can forgive but no forget.

[gadda33]

Film straszny, przerażający, pokazujący bezsilność ludzi i bestialstwo Sowietów.....15.000 oficerów zginęło w straszny sposób, oszukani, zwiedzeni i zgładzeni !!! Tylko guziki po nich zostały.

Wszyscy w kinie płakali jak małe dzieci. Doskonała muzyka Pendereckiego. Ten film trzeba zobaczyć. To obowiązek.

[Lardon2]

tez tak misle.

Dzienki za komentarsz

[tiarabozen]

SUPER

[Husars]

Very good fil, I give 5.

[Staatssicherheit]

@Murdock1512 What are they saying there in the start, screaming?

[jebacpolacov14]

kill more poland pigs

[domarat11111]

Katyn murders: Lew Rybak, Chaim Finberg, Izaak Stolzman, Abraham Borisowicz., Bogdan Zaharewicz Kobulow, Begman, Elman, Estrin, Krongauz, Lejbkind, J. Raichman, Abakumow, Milstein (transport), Sierow, Abram Borysowicz, Lew Rybak, Chaim Finberg, Joshua Sorokin, Aleksander Susłow, Samyun Tichonow- ONLY JEWS!