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As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became prisoners of war in the Soviet Union.
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This is my personal answer to the Russian propaganda. This video shows the meeting of Soviet and German troops, setting up poles on the border in divided Poland. Starting a fire and then being proud you put it out is no glory...
The 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation that started without a formal declaration of war on 17 September 1939, during the early stages of World War II, sixteen days after the beginning of the Nazi German attack on Poland. It ended in a decisive victory for the Soviet Union's Red Army.
On the 23 August 1939 Soviets signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, with Nazi Germany. As a result, on 1 September, the Germans invaded Poland from the west; and on 17 September, the Red Army invaded Poland from the east. The Soviet government announced that it was acting to protect the Ukrainians and Belarusians who lived in the eastern part of Poland, because the Polish state had collapsed in the face of the German attack and could no longer guarantee the security of its own citizens.
The Red Army quickly achieved its targets, vastly outnumbering Polish resistance. About 230,000 Polish soldiers or more (452 500) were taken prisoners of war. The Soviet government annexed the territory newly under its control and in November declared that the 13.5 million Polish citizens who lived there were now Soviet citizens. The Soviets quelled opposition by executions and by arresting thousands. They sent hundreds of thousands (estimates vary) to Siberia and other remote parts of the USSR in four major waves of deportations between 1939 and 1941.
The Soviet invasion, which the Politburo called "the liberation campaign", led to the incorporation of millions of Poles, western Ukrainians and western Belarusians into the Soviet Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics.
During the two years following the annexation, the Soviets also arrested approximately 100,000 Polish citizens and deported up to 1,500,000.
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Russian aggression has very long history, which modern Russia tries to forget. In the beginning of the Second World War, Hitler and Stalin were equal aggressors who invaded Poland from different sides. According to the Molotov- Ribbentrop Soviet-Nazi agreement, 52% of Poland had to become Soviet territory. Hitler and Stalin have agreed to invade Poland simultaneously from both sides. However, Stalin, who had his own plans of establishing communism in the whole Europe, didn’t keep his promise and invaded Poland only 17 days later, which allowed Soviets to look like “liberators”. Invasion of Poland by Soviet troops in 1939 was explained to Soviet people as protection of brotherly Ukrainian and Belorussian people from the German aggressor. Pretty much in the same way as modern Russian government explains to Russians its current invasion of Ukraine – as protection of brotherly Russian people from Ukrainian “fascists”.
Polish army didn’t have any chance. By 17 September 1939, about two weeks after German invasion of Poland, the Polish defence was already broken and the only hope was to retreat and reorganize in the east. However, on September 17th, 800,000-strong Soviet Red Army hit in the back and invaded Poland in violation of the Riga Peace Treaty, the Soviet-Polish Non-Aggression Pact, and other international treaties, both bilateral and multilateral. In total, 3,000–7,000 Polish soldiers died fighting the Red Army, with 230,000–450,000 taken prisoner. The Soviets also executed all the Polish officers they captured after the Battle of Szack, on 28 September 1939, and over 20,000 Polish military personnel and civilians perished in the Katyn massacre.
This video shows one example of Russia’s shameful history of collaborationism with fascist Germany: the German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_military_parade_in_Brest-Litovsk). The Battle of Brest-Litovsk took place between 14 and 17 September 1939. After three days of heavy fights for the stronghold in the town of Brześć, the Germans captured the fortress and the Poles withdrew. According to the terms of the 1939 German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact the territory around Brest as well as 52% of the then Poland was assigned to the Soviet Union. The Soviet 29th tank brigade under Brigadier Semyon Krivoshein reached the area of Brześć on September 21st and took over the fortress from the Wehrmacht. During that event a joint German-Soviet parade was held in the town, after which the German forces left the area. The XIX motorized Corps of Wehrmacht and the 29th Tank Brigade of the Red Army participated in the parade.
https://newsfromukr.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/joint-soviet-nazi-military-parade-in-brest-litovsk-the-history-of-russian-aggression/
- published: 02 Nov 2015
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The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, 'Katyń crime'), was a mass murder of thousands of Polish prisoners of war (primarily military officers), intellectuals, policemen, and other public servants by the Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps. Dated March 5, 1940, this official document was then approved (signed) by the entire Soviet Politburo including Joseph Stalin and Beria. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, the most commonly cited number being 21,768. The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin (Tver) and Kharkov 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, 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, and Belarusian intelligentsia of Polish citizenship.
Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943. The revelation led to the end 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 perpetration of the massacre by the NKVD. as well as the subsequent cover-up. An investigation by the Prosecutor's General Office of the Russian Federation has confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres, yet does not classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. This acknowledgement would have made necessary the prosecution of surviving perpetrators, which is what the Polish government had requested. The Russian government also does not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, which bars formal posthumous rehabilitation.
Executions:
After 3 April, 1940, at least 22,436 POWs and prisoners were executed: 15,131 POWs (most or all of them from the three camps) and at least 7,305 prisoners in western parts of Belarus and Ukraine. A 1956 memo from KGB chief Alexander Shelepin to First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev contains incomplete information about the personal files of 21,857 murdered POWs and prisoners. Of them 4,421 were from Kozielsk, 3,820 from Starobielsk, 6,311 from Ostashkov, and 7,305 from Belarusian and Ukrainian prisons. Shelepin's data for prisons should be considered a minimum, because his data for POWs is incomplete (he mentions 14,552 personal files for POWs, while at least 15,131 POWs "sent to NKVD" are mentioned in contemporary documents).
Discovery:
The Germans assembled and brought in a European commission consisting of twelve forensic experts and their staffs from Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Croatia, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Slovakia, and Hungary. After the war, all the experts, save for a Bulgarian and a Czech, reaffirmed their 1943 finding of Soviet guilt. The Katyn Massacre was beneficial to Nazi Germany, which used it to discredit the Soviet Union. Goebbels wrote in his diary on 14 April 1943: "We are now using the discovery of 12,000 Polish officers, murdered by the GPU, for anti-Bolshevik propaganda on a grand style. We sent neutral journalists and Polish intellectuals to the spot where they were found. Their reports now reaching us from ahead are gruesome. The Fuehrer has also given permission for us to hand out a drastic news item to the German press. I gave instructions to make the widest possible use of the propaganda material. We shall be able to live on it for a couple weeks." The Germans had succeeded in portraying the dark side of the Soviet government to the world and briefly raised the spectre of a communist monster rampaging across the territories of Western civilization; moreover, General Sikorski's unease threatened to unravel the alliance between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union.
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This film documents the personal experiences of a political prisoner in the Soviet Union, who described the psychological methods used to try to extract a confession. This dramatization is certainly a compelling true story of individual courage. Its message is that American democracy was morally superior to Soviet Communism.
The film based on the true story of the book "Invitation to Moscow" by Zbigniew Stypułkowski who was a member of the "Trial of the Sixteen". The Trial of the Sixteen (Polish: Proces szesnastu) was a staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Underground State held by the Soviet Union in Moscow, 1945.
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The Polish Underground State (Polish: Polskie Państwo Podziemne, also known as the Polish Secret State) is a collective term for the underground resistance organizations in Poland during World War 2, both military and civilian, that were loyal to the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile in London. The first elements of the Underground State were established in the final days of the German invasion of Poland that began in September 1939. The Underground State was perceived by supporters as a legal continuation of the pre-war Republic of Poland (and its institutions) that waged an armed struggle against the country's occupying powers: Germany and the Soviet Union.
At the end of the World War 2, sixteen leaders of the Polish underground movement had been invited by Moscow to help organize the new "Polish Government of National Unity" and were subsequently captured by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. In June 1945, all of them were convicted of "drawing up plans for military action against the Soviet Union".
For more information about the Trial of the Sixteen see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_Sixteen
Experiences of a Political Prisoner in the Soviet Union | Dramatized Film | 1956
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- published: 31 Jul 2016
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Russia 1943 - Katyn Massacre Exhumation Mass Grave Polish Military Officers executed by Soviet Union
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Katyn Massacre, mass execution of Polish military officers by the Soviet Union during World War II. The discovery of the massacre precipitated the severance of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Polish government-in-exile in London.
After Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union concluded their Nonaggression Pact of 1939 and Germany invaded Poland from the west, Soviet forces occupied the eastern half of Poland. As a consequence of this occupation, tens of thousands of Polish military personnel fell into Soviet hands and were interned in prison camps inside the Soviet Union. But after the Germans invaded the Soviet Union (June 1941), the Polish government-in-exile (located in London) and the Soviet government agreed to cooperate against Germany, and a Polish army on Soviet territory was to be formed. The Polish general Władysław Anders began organizing this army, but when he requested that 15,000 Polish prisoners of war whom the Soviets had once held at camps near Smolensk be transferred to his command, the Soviet government informed him in December 1941 that most of those prisoners had escaped to Manchuria and could not be located.
The fate of the missing prisoners remained a mystery. Then on April 13, 1943, the Germans announced that they had discovered mass graves of Polish officers in the Katyn forest near Smolensk, in western Russian S.F.S.R. A total of 4,443 corpses were recovered that had apparently been shot from behind and then piled in stacks and buried. Investigators identified the corpses as the Polish officers who had been interned at a Soviet prison camp near Smolensk and accused the Soviet authorities of having executed the prisoners in May 1940. In response to these charges, the Soviet government claimed that the Poles had been engaged in construction work west of Smolensk in 1941 and the invading German army had killed them after overrunning that area in August 1941. But both German and Red Cross investigations of the Katyn corpses then produced firm physical evidence that the massacre took place in early 1940, at a time when the area was still under Soviet control.
The Polish government-in-exile in London requested that the International Committee of the Red Cross examine the graves and also asked the Soviet government to provide official reports on the fates of the remaining missing prisoners. The Soviet government refused these demands, and on April 25, 1943, the Soviets broke diplomatic relations with the Polish government in London. The Soviets then set about establishing a Polish government-in-exile composed of Polish communists.
The Katyn Massacre left a deep scar in Polish-Soviet relations during the remainder of the war and afterward. For Poles, Katyn became a symbol of the many victims of Stalinism. Although a 1952 U.S. congressional inquiry concluded that the Soviet Union had been responsible for the massacre, Soviet leaders insisted for decades that the Polish officers found at Katyn had been killed by the invading Germans in 1941. This explanation was accepted without protest by successive Polish communist governments until the late 1980s, when the Soviet Union allowed a noncommunist coalition government to come to power in Poland. In March 1989 this government officially shifted the blame for the Katyn Massacre from the Germans to the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. In 1992 the Russian government released documents proving that the Soviet Politburo and the NKVD had been responsible for the massacre and cover-up and revealing that there may have been more than 20,000 victims. In 2000 a memorial was opened at the site of the killings in Katyn.
On April 7, 2010, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin joined Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a ceremony commemorating the massacre, marking the first time that a Russian leader had taken part in such a commemoration. Three days later, on April 10, a plane carrying Polish Pres. Lech Kaczynski to another commemoration ceremony crashed near Smolensk and the Katyn site, killing Kaczynski, his wife, the head of the national security bureau, the president of the national bank, the army chief of staff, and a number of other Polish government officials.
In November 2010 the State Duma (the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly) officially declared that Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders were responsible for ordering the execution of the Polish officers at Katyn.
- published: 21 May 2017
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NOTE: This film celebrates the 71st anniversary of the Soviet invasion on Poland, which was conducted without declaration of war and while Poland was still in a bloody struggle with Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, after nazi Germany's attack of the 1st of September, 1939. Results of Soviet agression - the annexion of a half of Polish territory including historical cities of Lwów, Tarnopol, Stanisławów, Wilno or Grodno and annihilation of hundreds thousands of Polish citizens living in that area or deportation deep into Russia of another hundreds thousands -- are the wounds that still divide two nations and do not want to heal. Russia never admitted its crimes against Poland, especially the unbelievably cynical mass-murder of 20.000 of Polish officers in Katyń -- and, what is more -- the contemporary Russian propaganda still more and more manipulates the historical truth with the help of many scientific authorities -- tending to accusing Poland for "aggressive attitude" towards Russia throughout the Polish-Russian history, inevitably resulting in "conflicts" like was "the Katyń affair" (as they call it). In that light often skipped is the question of obvious Russian -- Nazi collaboration shortly before and during the firts years of World War 2, including infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of 26th August, 1939 -- a historical fact, that opened all avenues for Hitler's plan of attacking Poland and guaranteed him oil and steel supplies in exchange for the Russian participation in division of Polish territory.
Music in my clip illustrates the sequence of the historical events:
1. Warsaw in last few weeks before the war: "Żegnaj, piękny śnie" (Goodbye, Beautiful Dream) sung by Tadeusz Faliszewski acc. by Jan Ławrusiewicz and his Hawaiian Guitar Trio, Syrena-Electro 1931 (Poland)
2. German invasion on Poland on 1st Sept., 1939 and the bombing of Warsaw: Tchaikovsky's 6th Sypmhony (Pathetique) -- Finale, performed by Berliner Philharmoniker cond. by Wilhelm Furtwaengler, Electrola ca 1939 (Germany)
3. Soviet invasion on Poland on 17th Sept, 1939: Boris Godunov (Musorgsky) Vaarlam's Song -- Fyodor Chaliapin, Noginskij Zavod ca 1939 (Russia)
4. The Stalinist "new deal" in annexed territory of Poland: fragment of "The Intarnational" (P.Degelter) played by Polish Army's Gala Orchestra dir. by mjr A.Wiśniewski, Muza ca 1950 (Poland)
- published: 17 Sep 2010
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What Hollywood history won't teach you.
The untold and unacknowledged story of 1,700,000 Poles deported to Siberia in 1940 by the Russians.
In 1940, after Russia invaded Poland, Stalin deported 1.7 million Poles to slave labour camps in Siberia and Kazakhstan. Only one third of them survived.
- published: 23 Feb 2013
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Systematic POW labor in the Soviet Union is associated primarily with the outcomes of World War II and covers the period of 1939-1956, from the official formation of the first POW camps, to the repatriation of the last POWs, from the Kwantung Army.This form of forced labor was handled by the Chief Directorate for Prisoners of War and Internees Affairs of the NKVD, established in 1939 according to the NKVD Order no.0308 "On the Organization of POW Camps" to handle Polish POWs after the Soviet Invasion of Poland.The first POW camps were formed in the European part of the USSR.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик, tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik; IPA: [sɐˈjus sɐˈvʲɛtskʲɪx sətsɨəlʲɪsˈtʲitɕɪskʲɪx rʲɪˈspublʲɪk]) abbreviated to USSR (Russian: СССР, tr. SSSR) or shortened to the Soviet Union (Russian: Сове́тский Сою́з, tr. Sovetskij Soyuz; IPA: [sɐ'vʲetskʲɪj sɐˈjʉs]), was a Marxist–Leninist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991. A union of multiple subnational Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The Soviet Union was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital.
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Poland (Polish: Polska [ˈpɔlska]), officially the Republic of Poland (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska,
listen ), is a country in Central Europe,bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine and Belarus to the east; and the Baltic Sea, Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) and Lithuania to the north. The total area of Poland is 312,679 square kilometres (120,726 sq mi), making it the 71st largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. With a population of over 38.5 million people, Poland is the 34th most populous country in the world, the 8th most populous country in Europe and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, as well as the most populous post-communist member of the European Union. Poland is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions.
The establishment of a Polish state can be traced back to 966, when Mieszko I, ruler of a territory roughly coextensive with that of present-day Poland, converted to Christianity. The Kingdom of Poland was founded in 1025, and in 1569 it cemented a longstanding political association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by signing the Union of Lublin. This union formed the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, one of the largest and most populous countries of 16th and 17th-century Europe. The Commonwealth ceased to exist in the years 1772–1795, when its territory was partitioned among Prussia, the Russian Empire, and Austria. Poland regained its independence (as the Second Polish Republic) at the end of World War I, in 1918.
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Government of the Soviet Union
The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: Правительство СССР) was the main body of the executive branch of government in the Soviet Union. It was led by the head of the government, in the West referred to as the Premier of the Soviet Union.
The members of the Soviet Government—people's commissars, ministers, and heads of state committees—were recommended by the Premier and appointed by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. The Government of the Soviet Union exercised its executive powers in conformity with the Soviet Constitution and legislation enacted by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
During the period between the USSR was established on December 30, 1922, and the first Government of the Soviet Union was formed on July 6, 1923, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic's government acted as an interim government of the Soviet Union.
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14:17Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939
Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939
Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939 As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. -Video is targeted to blind users Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA image source in video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARCVZplOqe8 -
1:08Soviet and German friends - Poland 1939
Soviet and German friends - Poland 1939Soviet and German friends - Poland 1939
This is my personal answer to the Russian propaganda. This video shows the meeting of Soviet and German troops, setting up poles on the border in divided Poland. Starting a fire and then being proud you put it out is no glory... The 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation that started without a formal declaration of war on 17 September 1939, during the early stages of World War II, sixteen days after the beginning of the Nazi German attack on Poland. It ended in a decisive victory for the Soviet Union's Red Army. On the 23 August 1939 Soviets signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, with Nazi Germany. As a result, on 1 September, the Germans invaded Poland from the west; and on 17 September, the Red Army invaded Poland from the east. The Soviet government announced that it was acting to protect the Ukrainians and Belarusians who lived in the eastern part of Poland, because the Polish state had collapsed in the face of the German attack and could no longer guarantee the security of its own citizens. The Red Army quickly achieved its targets, vastly outnumbering Polish resistance. About 230,000 Polish soldiers or more (452 500) were taken prisoners of war. The Soviet government annexed the territory newly under its control and in November declared that the 13.5 million Polish citizens who lived there were now Soviet citizens. The Soviets quelled opposition by executions and by arresting thousands. They sent hundreds of thousands (estimates vary) to Siberia and other remote parts of the USSR in four major waves of deportations between 1939 and 1941. The Soviet invasion, which the Politburo called "the liberation campaign", led to the incorporation of millions of Poles, western Ukrainians and western Belarusians into the Soviet Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics. During the two years following the annexation, the Soviets also arrested approximately 100,000 Polish citizens and deported up to 1,500,000. -
7:37Joint Soviet-Nazi military parade in Poland. The history of Russian aggression.
Joint Soviet-Nazi military parade in Poland. The history of Russian aggression.Joint Soviet-Nazi military parade in Poland. The history of Russian aggression.
Russian aggression has very long history, which modern Russia tries to forget. In the beginning of the Second World War, Hitler and Stalin were equal aggressors who invaded Poland from different sides. According to the Molotov- Ribbentrop Soviet-Nazi agreement, 52% of Poland had to become Soviet territory. Hitler and Stalin have agreed to invade Poland simultaneously from both sides. However, Stalin, who had his own plans of establishing communism in the whole Europe, didn’t keep his promise and invaded Poland only 17 days later, which allowed Soviets to look like “liberators”. Invasion of Poland by Soviet troops in 1939 was explained to Soviet people as protection of brotherly Ukrainian and Belorussian people from the German aggressor. Pretty much in the same way as modern Russian government explains to Russians its current invasion of Ukraine – as protection of brotherly Russian people from Ukrainian “fascists”. Polish army didn’t have any chance. By 17 September 1939, about two weeks after German invasion of Poland, the Polish defence was already broken and the only hope was to retreat and reorganize in the east. However, on September 17th, 800,000-strong Soviet Red Army hit in the back and invaded Poland in violation of the Riga Peace Treaty, the Soviet-Polish Non-Aggression Pact, and other international treaties, both bilateral and multilateral. In total, 3,000–7,000 Polish soldiers died fighting the Red Army, with 230,000–450,000 taken prisoner. The Soviets also executed all the Polish officers they captured after the Battle of Szack, on 28 September 1939, and over 20,000 Polish military personnel and civilians perished in the Katyn massacre. This video shows one example of Russia’s shameful history of collaborationism with fascist Germany: the German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_military_parade_in_Brest-Litovsk). The Battle of Brest-Litovsk took place between 14 and 17 September 1939. After three days of heavy fights for the stronghold in the town of Brześć, the Germans captured the fortress and the Poles withdrew. According to the terms of the 1939 German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact the territory around Brest as well as 52% of the then Poland was assigned to the Soviet Union. The Soviet 29th tank brigade under Brigadier Semyon Krivoshein reached the area of Brześć on September 21st and took over the fortress from the Wehrmacht. During that event a joint German-Soviet parade was held in the town, after which the German forces left the area. The XIX motorized Corps of Wehrmacht and the 29th Tank Brigade of the Red Army participated in the parade. https://newsfromukr.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/joint-soviet-nazi-military-parade-in-brest-litovsk-the-history-of-russian-aggression/ -
9:1221,768 murdered in Katyn massacre by the Soviet NKVD - April 1940 - Joseph Stalin Lavrentiy Beria
21,768 murdered in Katyn massacre by the Soviet NKVD - April 1940 - Joseph Stalin Lavrentiy Beria21,768 murdered in Katyn massacre by the Soviet NKVD - April 1940 - Joseph Stalin Lavrentiy Beria
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, 'Katyń crime'), was a mass murder of thousands of Polish prisoners of war (primarily military officers), intellectuals, policemen, and other public servants by the Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps. Dated March 5, 1940, this official document was then approved (signed) by the entire Soviet Politburo including Joseph Stalin and Beria. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, the most commonly cited number being 21,768. The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin (Tver) and Kharkov 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, 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, and Belarusian intelligentsia of Polish citizenship. Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943. The revelation led to the end 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 perpetration of the massacre by the NKVD. as well as the subsequent cover-up. An investigation by the Prosecutor's General Office of the Russian Federation has confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres, yet does not classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. This acknowledgement would have made necessary the prosecution of surviving perpetrators, which is what the Polish government had requested. The Russian government also does not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, which bars formal posthumous rehabilitation. Executions: After 3 April, 1940, at least 22,436 POWs and prisoners were executed: 15,131 POWs (most or all of them from the three camps) and at least 7,305 prisoners in western parts of Belarus and Ukraine. A 1956 memo from KGB chief Alexander Shelepin to First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev contains incomplete information about the personal files of 21,857 murdered POWs and prisoners. Of them 4,421 were from Kozielsk, 3,820 from Starobielsk, 6,311 from Ostashkov, and 7,305 from Belarusian and Ukrainian prisons. Shelepin's data for prisons should be considered a minimum, because his data for POWs is incomplete (he mentions 14,552 personal files for POWs, while at least 15,131 POWs "sent to NKVD" are mentioned in contemporary documents). Discovery: The Germans assembled and brought in a European commission consisting of twelve forensic experts and their staffs from Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Croatia, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Slovakia, and Hungary. After the war, all the experts, save for a Bulgarian and a Czech, reaffirmed their 1943 finding of Soviet guilt. The Katyn Massacre was beneficial to Nazi Germany, which used it to discredit the Soviet Union. Goebbels wrote in his diary on 14 April 1943: "We are now using the discovery of 12,000 Polish officers, murdered by the GPU, for anti-Bolshevik propaganda on a grand style. We sent neutral journalists and Polish intellectuals to the spot where they were found. Their reports now reaching us from ahead are gruesome. The Fuehrer has also given permission for us to hand out a drastic news item to the German press. I gave instructions to make the widest possible use of the propaganda material. We shall be able to live on it for a couple weeks." The Germans had succeeded in portraying the dark side of the Soviet government to the world and briefly raised the spectre of a communist monster rampaging across the territories of Western civilization; moreover, General Sikorski's unease threatened to unravel the alliance between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union. -
1:08Seliger 2009: Polish prisoners of war memorial plates
Seliger 2009: Polish prisoners of war memorial platesSeliger 2009: Polish prisoners of war memorial plates
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24:03Experiences of a Political Prisoner in the Soviet Union | Dramatized Film | 1956
Experiences of a Political Prisoner in the Soviet Union | Dramatized Film | 1956Experiences of a Political Prisoner in the Soviet Union | Dramatized Film | 1956
★ CHECK OUT OUR T-SHIRTS: https://bravestgeneration.com/collections/all ►Facebook: https://facebook.com/TheBestFilmArchives ►Google+: https://plus.google.com/+TheBestFilmArchives ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/BestFilmArch This film documents the personal experiences of a political prisoner in the Soviet Union, who described the psychological methods used to try to extract a confession. This dramatization is certainly a compelling true story of individual courage. Its message is that American democracy was morally superior to Soviet Communism. The film based on the true story of the book "Invitation to Moscow" by Zbigniew Stypułkowski who was a member of the "Trial of the Sixteen". The Trial of the Sixteen (Polish: Proces szesnastu) was a staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Underground State held by the Soviet Union in Moscow, 1945. Historical background / context: The Polish Underground State (Polish: Polskie Państwo Podziemne, also known as the Polish Secret State) is a collective term for the underground resistance organizations in Poland during World War 2, both military and civilian, that were loyal to the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile in London. The first elements of the Underground State were established in the final days of the German invasion of Poland that began in September 1939. The Underground State was perceived by supporters as a legal continuation of the pre-war Republic of Poland (and its institutions) that waged an armed struggle against the country's occupying powers: Germany and the Soviet Union. At the end of the World War 2, sixteen leaders of the Polish underground movement had been invited by Moscow to help organize the new "Polish Government of National Unity" and were subsequently captured by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. In June 1945, all of them were convicted of "drawing up plans for military action against the Soviet Union". For more information about the Trial of the Sixteen see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_Sixteen Experiences of a Political Prisoner in the Soviet Union | Dramatized Film | 1956 TBFA_0065 -
3:39Russia 1943 - Katyn Massacre Exhumation Mass Grave Polish Officers 4K
Russia 1943 - Katyn Massacre Exhumation Mass Grave Polish Officers 4KRussia 1943 - Katyn Massacre Exhumation Mass Grave Polish Officers 4K
Russia 1943 - Katyn Massacre Exhumation Mass Grave Polish Military Officers executed by Soviet Union German History Archive - Unpublished Original Footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhFVVGA9Y_c&index;=1&list;=PLLEtu_bvreispSTeS_m08OcY8sC26bJVN Katyn Massacre, mass execution of Polish military officers by the Soviet Union during World War II. The discovery of the massacre precipitated the severance of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Polish government-in-exile in London. After Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union concluded their Nonaggression Pact of 1939 and Germany invaded Poland from the west, Soviet forces occupied the eastern half of Poland. As a consequence of this occupation, tens of thousands of Polish military personnel fell into Soviet hands and were interned in prison camps inside the Soviet Union. But after the Germans invaded the Soviet Union (June 1941), the Polish government-in-exile (located in London) and the Soviet government agreed to cooperate against Germany, and a Polish army on Soviet territory was to be formed. The Polish general Władysław Anders began organizing this army, but when he requested that 15,000 Polish prisoners of war whom the Soviets had once held at camps near Smolensk be transferred to his command, the Soviet government informed him in December 1941 that most of those prisoners had escaped to Manchuria and could not be located. The fate of the missing prisoners remained a mystery. Then on April 13, 1943, the Germans announced that they had discovered mass graves of Polish officers in the Katyn forest near Smolensk, in western Russian S.F.S.R. A total of 4,443 corpses were recovered that had apparently been shot from behind and then piled in stacks and buried. Investigators identified the corpses as the Polish officers who had been interned at a Soviet prison camp near Smolensk and accused the Soviet authorities of having executed the prisoners in May 1940. In response to these charges, the Soviet government claimed that the Poles had been engaged in construction work west of Smolensk in 1941 and the invading German army had killed them after overrunning that area in August 1941. But both German and Red Cross investigations of the Katyn corpses then produced firm physical evidence that the massacre took place in early 1940, at a time when the area was still under Soviet control. The Polish government-in-exile in London requested that the International Committee of the Red Cross examine the graves and also asked the Soviet government to provide official reports on the fates of the remaining missing prisoners. The Soviet government refused these demands, and on April 25, 1943, the Soviets broke diplomatic relations with the Polish government in London. The Soviets then set about establishing a Polish government-in-exile composed of Polish communists. The Katyn Massacre left a deep scar in Polish-Soviet relations during the remainder of the war and afterward. For Poles, Katyn became a symbol of the many victims of Stalinism. Although a 1952 U.S. congressional inquiry concluded that the Soviet Union had been responsible for the massacre, Soviet leaders insisted for decades that the Polish officers found at Katyn had been killed by the invading Germans in 1941. This explanation was accepted without protest by successive Polish communist governments until the late 1980s, when the Soviet Union allowed a noncommunist coalition government to come to power in Poland. In March 1989 this government officially shifted the blame for the Katyn Massacre from the Germans to the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. In 1992 the Russian government released documents proving that the Soviet Politburo and the NKVD had been responsible for the massacre and cover-up and revealing that there may have been more than 20,000 victims. In 2000 a memorial was opened at the site of the killings in Katyn. On April 7, 2010, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin joined Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a ceremony commemorating the massacre, marking the first time that a Russian leader had taken part in such a commemoration. Three days later, on April 10, a plane carrying Polish Pres. Lech Kaczynski to another commemoration ceremony crashed near Smolensk and the Katyn site, killing Kaczynski, his wife, the head of the national security bureau, the president of the national bank, the army chief of staff, and a number of other Polish government officials. In November 2010 the State Duma (the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly) officially declared that Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders were responsible for ordering the execution of the Polish officers at Katyn. -
8:25Soviet invasion on Poland - 17 Sept 1939
Soviet invasion on Poland - 17 Sept 1939Soviet invasion on Poland - 17 Sept 1939
NOTE: This film celebrates the 71st anniversary of the Soviet invasion on Poland, which was conducted without declaration of war and while Poland was still in a bloody struggle with Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, after nazi Germany's attack of the 1st of September, 1939. Results of Soviet agression - the annexion of a half of Polish territory including historical cities of Lwów, Tarnopol, Stanisławów, Wilno or Grodno and annihilation of hundreds thousands of Polish citizens living in that area or deportation deep into Russia of another hundreds thousands -- are the wounds that still divide two nations and do not want to heal. Russia never admitted its crimes against Poland, especially the unbelievably cynical mass-murder of 20.000 of Polish officers in Katyń -- and, what is more -- the contemporary Russian propaganda still more and more manipulates the historical truth with the help of many scientific authorities -- tending to accusing Poland for "aggressive attitude" towards Russia throughout the Polish-Russian history, inevitably resulting in "conflicts" like was "the Katyń affair" (as they call it). In that light often skipped is the question of obvious Russian -- Nazi collaboration shortly before and during the firts years of World War 2, including infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of 26th August, 1939 -- a historical fact, that opened all avenues for Hitler's plan of attacking Poland and guaranteed him oil and steel supplies in exchange for the Russian participation in division of Polish territory. Music in my clip illustrates the sequence of the historical events: 1. Warsaw in last few weeks before the war: "Żegnaj, piękny śnie" (Goodbye, Beautiful Dream) sung by Tadeusz Faliszewski acc. by Jan Ławrusiewicz and his Hawaiian Guitar Trio, Syrena-Electro 1931 (Poland) 2. German invasion on Poland on 1st Sept., 1939 and the bombing of Warsaw: Tchaikovsky's 6th Sypmhony (Pathetique) -- Finale, performed by Berliner Philharmoniker cond. by Wilhelm Furtwaengler, Electrola ca 1939 (Germany) 3. Soviet invasion on Poland on 17th Sept, 1939: Boris Godunov (Musorgsky) Vaarlam's Song -- Fyodor Chaliapin, Noginskij Zavod ca 1939 (Russia) 4. The Stalinist "new deal" in annexed territory of Poland: fragment of "The Intarnational" (P.Degelter) played by Polish Army's Gala Orchestra dir. by mjr A.Wiśniewski, Muza ca 1950 (Poland) -
10:43Poles deported to Siberia in 1940 - 1 of 5 - second world war
Poles deported to Siberia in 1940 - 1 of 5 - second world warPoles deported to Siberia in 1940 - 1 of 5 - second world war
What Hollywood history won't teach you. The untold and unacknowledged story of 1,700,000 Poles deported to Siberia in 1940 by the Russians. In 1940, after Russia invaded Poland, Stalin deported 1.7 million Poles to slave labour camps in Siberia and Kazakhstan. Only one third of them survived. -
1:50POW labor in the Soviet Union
POW labor in the Soviet UnionPOW labor in the Soviet Union
Systematic POW labor in the Soviet Union is associated primarily with the outcomes of World War II and covers the period of 1939-1956, from the official formation of the first POW camps, to the repatriation of the last POWs, from the Kwantung Army.This form of forced labor was handled by the Chief Directorate for Prisoners of War and Internees Affairs of the NKVD, established in 1939 according to the NKVD Order no.0308 "On the Organization of POW Camps" to handle Polish POWs after the Soviet Invasion of Poland.The first POW camps were formed in the European part of the USSR. This channel is dedicated to make Wikipedia, one of the biggest knowledge databases in the world available to people with limited vision. Article available under a Creative Commons license Image source in video
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Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939
Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939 As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. -Video is targeted to blind users Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA image source in video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARCVZplOqe8
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Soviet and German friends - Poland 1939
This is my personal answer to the Russian propaganda. This video shows the meeting of Soviet and German troops, setting up poles on the border in divided Poland. Starting a fire and then being proud you put it out is no glory... The 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation that started without a formal declaration of war on 17 September 1939, during the early stages of World War II, sixteen days after the beginning of the Nazi German attack on Poland. It ended in a decisive victory for the Soviet Union's Red Army. On the 23 August 1939 Soviets signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, with Nazi Germany. As a result, on 1 September, the Germans invaded Poland from the west; and on 17 September, the Red Army invaded Poland from the east. The Soviet government announced that i...
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Joint Soviet-Nazi military parade in Poland. The history of Russian aggression.
Russian aggression has very long history, which modern Russia tries to forget. In the beginning of the Second World War, Hitler and Stalin were equal aggressors who invaded Poland from different sides. According to the Molotov- Ribbentrop Soviet-Nazi agreement, 52% of Poland had to become Soviet territory. Hitler and Stalin have agreed to invade Poland simultaneously from both sides. However, Stalin, who had his own plans of establishing communism in the whole Europe, didn’t keep his promise and invaded Poland only 17 days later, which allowed Soviets to look like “liberators”. Invasion of Poland by Soviet troops in 1939 was explained to Soviet people as protection of brotherly Ukrainian and Belorussian people from the German aggressor. Pretty much in the same way as modern Russian governm...
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21,768 murdered in Katyn massacre by the Soviet NKVD - April 1940 - Joseph Stalin Lavrentiy Beria
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, 'Katyń crime'), was a mass murder of thousands of Polish prisoners of war (primarily military officers), intellectuals, policemen, and other public servants by the Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps. Dated March 5, 1940, this official document was then approved (signed) by the entire Soviet Politburo including Joseph Stalin and Beria. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, the most commonly cited number being 21,768. The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin (Tver) and Kharkov prisons and elsewhere. About 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, the rest bein...
published: 13 Mar 2010 -
Seliger 2009: Polish prisoners of war memorial plates
Seliger 2009: Polish prisoners of war memorial plates
published: 04 Aug 2009 -
Experiences of a Political Prisoner in the Soviet Union | Dramatized Film | 1956
★ CHECK OUT OUR T-SHIRTS: https://bravestgeneration.com/collections/all ►Facebook: https://facebook.com/TheBestFilmArchives ►Google+: https://plus.google.com/+TheBestFilmArchives ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/BestFilmArch This film documents the personal experiences of a political prisoner in the Soviet Union, who described the psychological methods used to try to extract a confession. This dramatization is certainly a compelling true story of individual courage. Its message is that American democracy was morally superior to Soviet Communism. The film based on the true story of the book "Invitation to Moscow" by Zbigniew Stypułkowski who was a member of the "Trial of the Sixteen". The Trial of the Sixteen (Polish: Proces szesnastu) was a staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Undergrou...
published: 31 Jul 2016 -
Russia 1943 - Katyn Massacre Exhumation Mass Grave Polish Officers 4K
Russia 1943 - Katyn Massacre Exhumation Mass Grave Polish Military Officers executed by Soviet Union German History Archive - Unpublished Original Footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhFVVGA9Y_c&index;=1&list;=PLLEtu_bvreispSTeS_m08OcY8sC26bJVN Katyn Massacre, mass execution of Polish military officers by the Soviet Union during World War II. The discovery of the massacre precipitated the severance of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Polish government-in-exile in London. After Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union concluded their Nonaggression Pact of 1939 and Germany invaded Poland from the west, Soviet forces occupied the eastern half of Poland. As a consequence of this occupation, tens of thousands of Polish military personnel fell into Soviet hands and were interned ...
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Soviet invasion on Poland - 17 Sept 1939
NOTE: This film celebrates the 71st anniversary of the Soviet invasion on Poland, which was conducted without declaration of war and while Poland was still in a bloody struggle with Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, after nazi Germany's attack of the 1st of September, 1939. Results of Soviet agression - the annexion of a half of Polish territory including historical cities of Lwów, Tarnopol, Stanisławów, Wilno or Grodno and annihilation of hundreds thousands of Polish citizens living in that area or deportation deep into Russia of another hundreds thousands -- are the wounds that still divide two nations and do not want to heal. Russia never admitted its crimes against Poland, especially the unbelievably cynical mass-murder of 20.000 of Polish officers in Katyń -- and, what is more -- the conte...
published: 17 Sep 2010 -
Poles deported to Siberia in 1940 - 1 of 5 - second world war
What Hollywood history won't teach you. The untold and unacknowledged story of 1,700,000 Poles deported to Siberia in 1940 by the Russians. In 1940, after Russia invaded Poland, Stalin deported 1.7 million Poles to slave labour camps in Siberia and Kazakhstan. Only one third of them survived.
published: 23 Feb 2013 -
POW labor in the Soviet Union
Systematic POW labor in the Soviet Union is associated primarily with the outcomes of World War II and covers the period of 1939-1956, from the official formation of the first POW camps, to the repatriation of the last POWs, from the Kwantung Army.This form of forced labor was handled by the Chief Directorate for Prisoners of War and Internees Affairs of the NKVD, established in 1939 according to the NKVD Order no.0308 "On the Organization of POW Camps" to handle Polish POWs after the Soviet Invasion of Poland.The first POW camps were formed in the European part of the USSR. This channel is dedicated to make Wikipedia, one of the biggest knowledge databases in the world available to people with limited vision. Article available under a Creative Commons license Image source in video
published: 10 Aug 2016
Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939
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Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939
As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became ...
Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939
As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became prisoners of war in the Soviet Union.
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Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939
As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became prisoners of war in the Soviet Union.
-Video is targeted to blind users
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Article text available under CC-BY-SA
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- published: 16 Jan 2016
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Soviet and German friends - Poland 1939
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:08
- Updated: 25 Aug 2009
- views: 52726
This is my personal answer to the Russian propaganda. This video shows the meeting of Soviet and German troops, setting up poles on the border in divided Poland...
This is my personal answer to the Russian propaganda. This video shows the meeting of Soviet and German troops, setting up poles on the border in divided Poland. Starting a fire and then being proud you put it out is no glory...
The 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation that started without a formal declaration of war on 17 September 1939, during the early stages of World War II, sixteen days after the beginning of the Nazi German attack on Poland. It ended in a decisive victory for the Soviet Union's Red Army.
On the 23 August 1939 Soviets signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, with Nazi Germany. As a result, on 1 September, the Germans invaded Poland from the west; and on 17 September, the Red Army invaded Poland from the east. The Soviet government announced that it was acting to protect the Ukrainians and Belarusians who lived in the eastern part of Poland, because the Polish state had collapsed in the face of the German attack and could no longer guarantee the security of its own citizens.
The Red Army quickly achieved its targets, vastly outnumbering Polish resistance. About 230,000 Polish soldiers or more (452 500) were taken prisoners of war. The Soviet government annexed the territory newly under its control and in November declared that the 13.5 million Polish citizens who lived there were now Soviet citizens. The Soviets quelled opposition by executions and by arresting thousands. They sent hundreds of thousands (estimates vary) to Siberia and other remote parts of the USSR in four major waves of deportations between 1939 and 1941.
The Soviet invasion, which the Politburo called "the liberation campaign", led to the incorporation of millions of Poles, western Ukrainians and western Belarusians into the Soviet Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics.
During the two years following the annexation, the Soviets also arrested approximately 100,000 Polish citizens and deported up to 1,500,000.
https://wn.com/Soviet_And_German_Friends_Poland_1939
This is my personal answer to the Russian propaganda. This video shows the meeting of Soviet and German troops, setting up poles on the border in divided Poland. Starting a fire and then being proud you put it out is no glory...
The 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation that started without a formal declaration of war on 17 September 1939, during the early stages of World War II, sixteen days after the beginning of the Nazi German attack on Poland. It ended in a decisive victory for the Soviet Union's Red Army.
On the 23 August 1939 Soviets signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, with Nazi Germany. As a result, on 1 September, the Germans invaded Poland from the west; and on 17 September, the Red Army invaded Poland from the east. The Soviet government announced that it was acting to protect the Ukrainians and Belarusians who lived in the eastern part of Poland, because the Polish state had collapsed in the face of the German attack and could no longer guarantee the security of its own citizens.
The Red Army quickly achieved its targets, vastly outnumbering Polish resistance. About 230,000 Polish soldiers or more (452 500) were taken prisoners of war. The Soviet government annexed the territory newly under its control and in November declared that the 13.5 million Polish citizens who lived there were now Soviet citizens. The Soviets quelled opposition by executions and by arresting thousands. They sent hundreds of thousands (estimates vary) to Siberia and other remote parts of the USSR in four major waves of deportations between 1939 and 1941.
The Soviet invasion, which the Politburo called "the liberation campaign", led to the incorporation of millions of Poles, western Ukrainians and western Belarusians into the Soviet Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics.
During the two years following the annexation, the Soviets also arrested approximately 100,000 Polish citizens and deported up to 1,500,000.
- published: 25 Aug 2009
- views: 52726
Joint Soviet-Nazi military parade in Poland. The history of Russian aggression.
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- Duration: 7:37
- Updated: 02 Nov 2015
- views: 4920
Russian aggression has very long history, which modern Russia tries to forget. In the beginning of the Second World War, Hitler and Stalin were equal aggressors...
Russian aggression has very long history, which modern Russia tries to forget. In the beginning of the Second World War, Hitler and Stalin were equal aggressors who invaded Poland from different sides. According to the Molotov- Ribbentrop Soviet-Nazi agreement, 52% of Poland had to become Soviet territory. Hitler and Stalin have agreed to invade Poland simultaneously from both sides. However, Stalin, who had his own plans of establishing communism in the whole Europe, didn’t keep his promise and invaded Poland only 17 days later, which allowed Soviets to look like “liberators”. Invasion of Poland by Soviet troops in 1939 was explained to Soviet people as protection of brotherly Ukrainian and Belorussian people from the German aggressor. Pretty much in the same way as modern Russian government explains to Russians its current invasion of Ukraine – as protection of brotherly Russian people from Ukrainian “fascists”.
Polish army didn’t have any chance. By 17 September 1939, about two weeks after German invasion of Poland, the Polish defence was already broken and the only hope was to retreat and reorganize in the east. However, on September 17th, 800,000-strong Soviet Red Army hit in the back and invaded Poland in violation of the Riga Peace Treaty, the Soviet-Polish Non-Aggression Pact, and other international treaties, both bilateral and multilateral. In total, 3,000–7,000 Polish soldiers died fighting the Red Army, with 230,000–450,000 taken prisoner. The Soviets also executed all the Polish officers they captured after the Battle of Szack, on 28 September 1939, and over 20,000 Polish military personnel and civilians perished in the Katyn massacre.
This video shows one example of Russia’s shameful history of collaborationism with fascist Germany: the German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_military_parade_in_Brest-Litovsk). The Battle of Brest-Litovsk took place between 14 and 17 September 1939. After three days of heavy fights for the stronghold in the town of Brześć, the Germans captured the fortress and the Poles withdrew. According to the terms of the 1939 German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact the territory around Brest as well as 52% of the then Poland was assigned to the Soviet Union. The Soviet 29th tank brigade under Brigadier Semyon Krivoshein reached the area of Brześć on September 21st and took over the fortress from the Wehrmacht. During that event a joint German-Soviet parade was held in the town, after which the German forces left the area. The XIX motorized Corps of Wehrmacht and the 29th Tank Brigade of the Red Army participated in the parade.
https://newsfromukr.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/joint-soviet-nazi-military-parade-in-brest-litovsk-the-history-of-russian-aggression/
https://wn.com/Joint_Soviet_Nazi_Military_Parade_In_Poland._The_History_Of_Russian_Aggression.
Russian aggression has very long history, which modern Russia tries to forget. In the beginning of the Second World War, Hitler and Stalin were equal aggressors who invaded Poland from different sides. According to the Molotov- Ribbentrop Soviet-Nazi agreement, 52% of Poland had to become Soviet territory. Hitler and Stalin have agreed to invade Poland simultaneously from both sides. However, Stalin, who had his own plans of establishing communism in the whole Europe, didn’t keep his promise and invaded Poland only 17 days later, which allowed Soviets to look like “liberators”. Invasion of Poland by Soviet troops in 1939 was explained to Soviet people as protection of brotherly Ukrainian and Belorussian people from the German aggressor. Pretty much in the same way as modern Russian government explains to Russians its current invasion of Ukraine – as protection of brotherly Russian people from Ukrainian “fascists”.
Polish army didn’t have any chance. By 17 September 1939, about two weeks after German invasion of Poland, the Polish defence was already broken and the only hope was to retreat and reorganize in the east. However, on September 17th, 800,000-strong Soviet Red Army hit in the back and invaded Poland in violation of the Riga Peace Treaty, the Soviet-Polish Non-Aggression Pact, and other international treaties, both bilateral and multilateral. In total, 3,000–7,000 Polish soldiers died fighting the Red Army, with 230,000–450,000 taken prisoner. The Soviets also executed all the Polish officers they captured after the Battle of Szack, on 28 September 1939, and over 20,000 Polish military personnel and civilians perished in the Katyn massacre.
This video shows one example of Russia’s shameful history of collaborationism with fascist Germany: the German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_military_parade_in_Brest-Litovsk). The Battle of Brest-Litovsk took place between 14 and 17 September 1939. After three days of heavy fights for the stronghold in the town of Brześć, the Germans captured the fortress and the Poles withdrew. According to the terms of the 1939 German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact the territory around Brest as well as 52% of the then Poland was assigned to the Soviet Union. The Soviet 29th tank brigade under Brigadier Semyon Krivoshein reached the area of Brześć on September 21st and took over the fortress from the Wehrmacht. During that event a joint German-Soviet parade was held in the town, after which the German forces left the area. The XIX motorized Corps of Wehrmacht and the 29th Tank Brigade of the Red Army participated in the parade.
https://newsfromukr.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/joint-soviet-nazi-military-parade-in-brest-litovsk-the-history-of-russian-aggression/
- published: 02 Nov 2015
- views: 4920
21,768 murdered in Katyn massacre by the Soviet NKVD - April 1940 - Joseph Stalin Lavrentiy Beria
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- Duration: 9:12
- Updated: 13 Mar 2010
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The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, 'Katyń crime'), was a mass murder of thousands of Polish prisoners of wa...
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, 'Katyń crime'), was a mass murder of thousands of Polish prisoners of war (primarily military officers), intellectuals, policemen, and other public servants by the Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps. Dated March 5, 1940, this official document was then approved (signed) by the entire Soviet Politburo including Joseph Stalin and Beria. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, the most commonly cited number being 21,768. The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin (Tver) and Kharkov 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, 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, and Belarusian intelligentsia of Polish citizenship.
Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943. The revelation led to the end 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 perpetration of the massacre by the NKVD. as well as the subsequent cover-up. An investigation by the Prosecutor's General Office of the Russian Federation has confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres, yet does not classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. This acknowledgement would have made necessary the prosecution of surviving perpetrators, which is what the Polish government had requested. The Russian government also does not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, which bars formal posthumous rehabilitation.
Executions:
After 3 April, 1940, at least 22,436 POWs and prisoners were executed: 15,131 POWs (most or all of them from the three camps) and at least 7,305 prisoners in western parts of Belarus and Ukraine. A 1956 memo from KGB chief Alexander Shelepin to First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev contains incomplete information about the personal files of 21,857 murdered POWs and prisoners. Of them 4,421 were from Kozielsk, 3,820 from Starobielsk, 6,311 from Ostashkov, and 7,305 from Belarusian and Ukrainian prisons. Shelepin's data for prisons should be considered a minimum, because his data for POWs is incomplete (he mentions 14,552 personal files for POWs, while at least 15,131 POWs "sent to NKVD" are mentioned in contemporary documents).
Discovery:
The Germans assembled and brought in a European commission consisting of twelve forensic experts and their staffs from Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Croatia, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Slovakia, and Hungary. After the war, all the experts, save for a Bulgarian and a Czech, reaffirmed their 1943 finding of Soviet guilt. The Katyn Massacre was beneficial to Nazi Germany, which used it to discredit the Soviet Union. Goebbels wrote in his diary on 14 April 1943: "We are now using the discovery of 12,000 Polish officers, murdered by the GPU, for anti-Bolshevik propaganda on a grand style. We sent neutral journalists and Polish intellectuals to the spot where they were found. Their reports now reaching us from ahead are gruesome. The Fuehrer has also given permission for us to hand out a drastic news item to the German press. I gave instructions to make the widest possible use of the propaganda material. We shall be able to live on it for a couple weeks." The Germans had succeeded in portraying the dark side of the Soviet government to the world and briefly raised the spectre of a communist monster rampaging across the territories of Western civilization; moreover, General Sikorski's unease threatened to unravel the alliance between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union.
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The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, 'Katyń crime'), was a mass murder of thousands of Polish prisoners of war (primarily military officers), intellectuals, policemen, and other public servants by the Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps. Dated March 5, 1940, this official document was then approved (signed) by the entire Soviet Politburo including Joseph Stalin and Beria. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, the most commonly cited number being 21,768. The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin (Tver) and Kharkov 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, 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, and Belarusian intelligentsia of Polish citizenship.
Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943. The revelation led to the end 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 perpetration of the massacre by the NKVD. as well as the subsequent cover-up. An investigation by the Prosecutor's General Office of the Russian Federation has confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres, yet does not classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. This acknowledgement would have made necessary the prosecution of surviving perpetrators, which is what the Polish government had requested. The Russian government also does not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, which bars formal posthumous rehabilitation.
Executions:
After 3 April, 1940, at least 22,436 POWs and prisoners were executed: 15,131 POWs (most or all of them from the three camps) and at least 7,305 prisoners in western parts of Belarus and Ukraine. A 1956 memo from KGB chief Alexander Shelepin to First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev contains incomplete information about the personal files of 21,857 murdered POWs and prisoners. Of them 4,421 were from Kozielsk, 3,820 from Starobielsk, 6,311 from Ostashkov, and 7,305 from Belarusian and Ukrainian prisons. Shelepin's data for prisons should be considered a minimum, because his data for POWs is incomplete (he mentions 14,552 personal files for POWs, while at least 15,131 POWs "sent to NKVD" are mentioned in contemporary documents).
Discovery:
The Germans assembled and brought in a European commission consisting of twelve forensic experts and their staffs from Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Croatia, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Slovakia, and Hungary. After the war, all the experts, save for a Bulgarian and a Czech, reaffirmed their 1943 finding of Soviet guilt. The Katyn Massacre was beneficial to Nazi Germany, which used it to discredit the Soviet Union. Goebbels wrote in his diary on 14 April 1943: "We are now using the discovery of 12,000 Polish officers, murdered by the GPU, for anti-Bolshevik propaganda on a grand style. We sent neutral journalists and Polish intellectuals to the spot where they were found. Their reports now reaching us from ahead are gruesome. The Fuehrer has also given permission for us to hand out a drastic news item to the German press. I gave instructions to make the widest possible use of the propaganda material. We shall be able to live on it for a couple weeks." The Germans had succeeded in portraying the dark side of the Soviet government to the world and briefly raised the spectre of a communist monster rampaging across the territories of Western civilization; moreover, General Sikorski's unease threatened to unravel the alliance between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union.
- published: 13 Mar 2010
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Seliger 2009: Polish prisoners of war memorial plates
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- Duration: 1:08
- Updated: 04 Aug 2009
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Seliger 2009: Polish prisoners of war memorial plates
Seliger 2009: Polish prisoners of war memorial plates
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Experiences of a Political Prisoner in the Soviet Union | Dramatized Film | 1956
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- Duration: 24:03
- Updated: 31 Jul 2016
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This film documents the personal experiences of a political prisoner in the Soviet Union, who described the psychological methods used to try to extract a confession. This dramatization is certainly a compelling true story of individual courage. Its message is that American democracy was morally superior to Soviet Communism.
The film based on the true story of the book "Invitation to Moscow" by Zbigniew Stypułkowski who was a member of the "Trial of the Sixteen". The Trial of the Sixteen (Polish: Proces szesnastu) was a staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Underground State held by the Soviet Union in Moscow, 1945.
Historical background / context:
The Polish Underground State (Polish: Polskie Państwo Podziemne, also known as the Polish Secret State) is a collective term for the underground resistance organizations in Poland during World War 2, both military and civilian, that were loyal to the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile in London. The first elements of the Underground State were established in the final days of the German invasion of Poland that began in September 1939. The Underground State was perceived by supporters as a legal continuation of the pre-war Republic of Poland (and its institutions) that waged an armed struggle against the country's occupying powers: Germany and the Soviet Union.
At the end of the World War 2, sixteen leaders of the Polish underground movement had been invited by Moscow to help organize the new "Polish Government of National Unity" and were subsequently captured by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. In June 1945, all of them were convicted of "drawing up plans for military action against the Soviet Union".
For more information about the Trial of the Sixteen see:
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Experiences of a Political Prisoner in the Soviet Union | Dramatized Film | 1956
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This film documents the personal experiences of a political prisoner in the Soviet Union, who described the psychological methods used to try to extract a confession. This dramatization is certainly a compelling true story of individual courage. Its message is that American democracy was morally superior to Soviet Communism.
The film based on the true story of the book "Invitation to Moscow" by Zbigniew Stypułkowski who was a member of the "Trial of the Sixteen". The Trial of the Sixteen (Polish: Proces szesnastu) was a staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Underground State held by the Soviet Union in Moscow, 1945.
Historical background / context:
The Polish Underground State (Polish: Polskie Państwo Podziemne, also known as the Polish Secret State) is a collective term for the underground resistance organizations in Poland during World War 2, both military and civilian, that were loyal to the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile in London. The first elements of the Underground State were established in the final days of the German invasion of Poland that began in September 1939. The Underground State was perceived by supporters as a legal continuation of the pre-war Republic of Poland (and its institutions) that waged an armed struggle against the country's occupying powers: Germany and the Soviet Union.
At the end of the World War 2, sixteen leaders of the Polish underground movement had been invited by Moscow to help organize the new "Polish Government of National Unity" and were subsequently captured by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. In June 1945, all of them were convicted of "drawing up plans for military action against the Soviet Union".
For more information about the Trial of the Sixteen see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_Sixteen
Experiences of a Political Prisoner in the Soviet Union | Dramatized Film | 1956
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- published: 31 Jul 2016
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Russia 1943 - Katyn Massacre Exhumation Mass Grave Polish Officers 4K
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- Duration: 3:39
- Updated: 21 May 2017
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Russia 1943 - Katyn Massacre Exhumation Mass Grave Polish Military Officers executed by Soviet Union
German History Archive - Unpublished Original Footage
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Russia 1943 - Katyn Massacre Exhumation Mass Grave Polish Military Officers executed by Soviet Union
German History Archive - Unpublished Original Footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhFVVGA9Y_c&index;=1&list;=PLLEtu_bvreispSTeS_m08OcY8sC26bJVN
Katyn Massacre, mass execution of Polish military officers by the Soviet Union during World War II. The discovery of the massacre precipitated the severance of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Polish government-in-exile in London.
After Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union concluded their Nonaggression Pact of 1939 and Germany invaded Poland from the west, Soviet forces occupied the eastern half of Poland. As a consequence of this occupation, tens of thousands of Polish military personnel fell into Soviet hands and were interned in prison camps inside the Soviet Union. But after the Germans invaded the Soviet Union (June 1941), the Polish government-in-exile (located in London) and the Soviet government agreed to cooperate against Germany, and a Polish army on Soviet territory was to be formed. The Polish general Władysław Anders began organizing this army, but when he requested that 15,000 Polish prisoners of war whom the Soviets had once held at camps near Smolensk be transferred to his command, the Soviet government informed him in December 1941 that most of those prisoners had escaped to Manchuria and could not be located.
The fate of the missing prisoners remained a mystery. Then on April 13, 1943, the Germans announced that they had discovered mass graves of Polish officers in the Katyn forest near Smolensk, in western Russian S.F.S.R. A total of 4,443 corpses were recovered that had apparently been shot from behind and then piled in stacks and buried. Investigators identified the corpses as the Polish officers who had been interned at a Soviet prison camp near Smolensk and accused the Soviet authorities of having executed the prisoners in May 1940. In response to these charges, the Soviet government claimed that the Poles had been engaged in construction work west of Smolensk in 1941 and the invading German army had killed them after overrunning that area in August 1941. But both German and Red Cross investigations of the Katyn corpses then produced firm physical evidence that the massacre took place in early 1940, at a time when the area was still under Soviet control.
The Polish government-in-exile in London requested that the International Committee of the Red Cross examine the graves and also asked the Soviet government to provide official reports on the fates of the remaining missing prisoners. The Soviet government refused these demands, and on April 25, 1943, the Soviets broke diplomatic relations with the Polish government in London. The Soviets then set about establishing a Polish government-in-exile composed of Polish communists.
The Katyn Massacre left a deep scar in Polish-Soviet relations during the remainder of the war and afterward. For Poles, Katyn became a symbol of the many victims of Stalinism. Although a 1952 U.S. congressional inquiry concluded that the Soviet Union had been responsible for the massacre, Soviet leaders insisted for decades that the Polish officers found at Katyn had been killed by the invading Germans in 1941. This explanation was accepted without protest by successive Polish communist governments until the late 1980s, when the Soviet Union allowed a noncommunist coalition government to come to power in Poland. In March 1989 this government officially shifted the blame for the Katyn Massacre from the Germans to the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. In 1992 the Russian government released documents proving that the Soviet Politburo and the NKVD had been responsible for the massacre and cover-up and revealing that there may have been more than 20,000 victims. In 2000 a memorial was opened at the site of the killings in Katyn.
On April 7, 2010, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin joined Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a ceremony commemorating the massacre, marking the first time that a Russian leader had taken part in such a commemoration. Three days later, on April 10, a plane carrying Polish Pres. Lech Kaczynski to another commemoration ceremony crashed near Smolensk and the Katyn site, killing Kaczynski, his wife, the head of the national security bureau, the president of the national bank, the army chief of staff, and a number of other Polish government officials.
In November 2010 the State Duma (the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly) officially declared that Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders were responsible for ordering the execution of the Polish officers at Katyn.
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Russia 1943 - Katyn Massacre Exhumation Mass Grave Polish Military Officers executed by Soviet Union
German History Archive - Unpublished Original Footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhFVVGA9Y_c&index;=1&list;=PLLEtu_bvreispSTeS_m08OcY8sC26bJVN
Katyn Massacre, mass execution of Polish military officers by the Soviet Union during World War II. The discovery of the massacre precipitated the severance of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Polish government-in-exile in London.
After Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union concluded their Nonaggression Pact of 1939 and Germany invaded Poland from the west, Soviet forces occupied the eastern half of Poland. As a consequence of this occupation, tens of thousands of Polish military personnel fell into Soviet hands and were interned in prison camps inside the Soviet Union. But after the Germans invaded the Soviet Union (June 1941), the Polish government-in-exile (located in London) and the Soviet government agreed to cooperate against Germany, and a Polish army on Soviet territory was to be formed. The Polish general Władysław Anders began organizing this army, but when he requested that 15,000 Polish prisoners of war whom the Soviets had once held at camps near Smolensk be transferred to his command, the Soviet government informed him in December 1941 that most of those prisoners had escaped to Manchuria and could not be located.
The fate of the missing prisoners remained a mystery. Then on April 13, 1943, the Germans announced that they had discovered mass graves of Polish officers in the Katyn forest near Smolensk, in western Russian S.F.S.R. A total of 4,443 corpses were recovered that had apparently been shot from behind and then piled in stacks and buried. Investigators identified the corpses as the Polish officers who had been interned at a Soviet prison camp near Smolensk and accused the Soviet authorities of having executed the prisoners in May 1940. In response to these charges, the Soviet government claimed that the Poles had been engaged in construction work west of Smolensk in 1941 and the invading German army had killed them after overrunning that area in August 1941. But both German and Red Cross investigations of the Katyn corpses then produced firm physical evidence that the massacre took place in early 1940, at a time when the area was still under Soviet control.
The Polish government-in-exile in London requested that the International Committee of the Red Cross examine the graves and also asked the Soviet government to provide official reports on the fates of the remaining missing prisoners. The Soviet government refused these demands, and on April 25, 1943, the Soviets broke diplomatic relations with the Polish government in London. The Soviets then set about establishing a Polish government-in-exile composed of Polish communists.
The Katyn Massacre left a deep scar in Polish-Soviet relations during the remainder of the war and afterward. For Poles, Katyn became a symbol of the many victims of Stalinism. Although a 1952 U.S. congressional inquiry concluded that the Soviet Union had been responsible for the massacre, Soviet leaders insisted for decades that the Polish officers found at Katyn had been killed by the invading Germans in 1941. This explanation was accepted without protest by successive Polish communist governments until the late 1980s, when the Soviet Union allowed a noncommunist coalition government to come to power in Poland. In March 1989 this government officially shifted the blame for the Katyn Massacre from the Germans to the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. In 1992 the Russian government released documents proving that the Soviet Politburo and the NKVD had been responsible for the massacre and cover-up and revealing that there may have been more than 20,000 victims. In 2000 a memorial was opened at the site of the killings in Katyn.
On April 7, 2010, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin joined Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a ceremony commemorating the massacre, marking the first time that a Russian leader had taken part in such a commemoration. Three days later, on April 10, a plane carrying Polish Pres. Lech Kaczynski to another commemoration ceremony crashed near Smolensk and the Katyn site, killing Kaczynski, his wife, the head of the national security bureau, the president of the national bank, the army chief of staff, and a number of other Polish government officials.
In November 2010 the State Duma (the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly) officially declared that Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders were responsible for ordering the execution of the Polish officers at Katyn.
- published: 21 May 2017
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Soviet invasion on Poland - 17 Sept 1939
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- Duration: 8:25
- Updated: 17 Sep 2010
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NOTE: This film celebrates the 71st anniversary of the Soviet invasion on Poland, which was conducted without declaration of war and while Poland was still in a...
NOTE: This film celebrates the 71st anniversary of the Soviet invasion on Poland, which was conducted without declaration of war and while Poland was still in a bloody struggle with Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, after nazi Germany's attack of the 1st of September, 1939. Results of Soviet agression - the annexion of a half of Polish territory including historical cities of Lwów, Tarnopol, Stanisławów, Wilno or Grodno and annihilation of hundreds thousands of Polish citizens living in that area or deportation deep into Russia of another hundreds thousands -- are the wounds that still divide two nations and do not want to heal. Russia never admitted its crimes against Poland, especially the unbelievably cynical mass-murder of 20.000 of Polish officers in Katyń -- and, what is more -- the contemporary Russian propaganda still more and more manipulates the historical truth with the help of many scientific authorities -- tending to accusing Poland for "aggressive attitude" towards Russia throughout the Polish-Russian history, inevitably resulting in "conflicts" like was "the Katyń affair" (as they call it). In that light often skipped is the question of obvious Russian -- Nazi collaboration shortly before and during the firts years of World War 2, including infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of 26th August, 1939 -- a historical fact, that opened all avenues for Hitler's plan of attacking Poland and guaranteed him oil and steel supplies in exchange for the Russian participation in division of Polish territory.
Music in my clip illustrates the sequence of the historical events:
1. Warsaw in last few weeks before the war: "Żegnaj, piękny śnie" (Goodbye, Beautiful Dream) sung by Tadeusz Faliszewski acc. by Jan Ławrusiewicz and his Hawaiian Guitar Trio, Syrena-Electro 1931 (Poland)
2. German invasion on Poland on 1st Sept., 1939 and the bombing of Warsaw: Tchaikovsky's 6th Sypmhony (Pathetique) -- Finale, performed by Berliner Philharmoniker cond. by Wilhelm Furtwaengler, Electrola ca 1939 (Germany)
3. Soviet invasion on Poland on 17th Sept, 1939: Boris Godunov (Musorgsky) Vaarlam's Song -- Fyodor Chaliapin, Noginskij Zavod ca 1939 (Russia)
4. The Stalinist "new deal" in annexed territory of Poland: fragment of "The Intarnational" (P.Degelter) played by Polish Army's Gala Orchestra dir. by mjr A.Wiśniewski, Muza ca 1950 (Poland)
https://wn.com/Soviet_Invasion_On_Poland_17_Sept_1939
NOTE: This film celebrates the 71st anniversary of the Soviet invasion on Poland, which was conducted without declaration of war and while Poland was still in a bloody struggle with Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, after nazi Germany's attack of the 1st of September, 1939. Results of Soviet agression - the annexion of a half of Polish territory including historical cities of Lwów, Tarnopol, Stanisławów, Wilno or Grodno and annihilation of hundreds thousands of Polish citizens living in that area or deportation deep into Russia of another hundreds thousands -- are the wounds that still divide two nations and do not want to heal. Russia never admitted its crimes against Poland, especially the unbelievably cynical mass-murder of 20.000 of Polish officers in Katyń -- and, what is more -- the contemporary Russian propaganda still more and more manipulates the historical truth with the help of many scientific authorities -- tending to accusing Poland for "aggressive attitude" towards Russia throughout the Polish-Russian history, inevitably resulting in "conflicts" like was "the Katyń affair" (as they call it). In that light often skipped is the question of obvious Russian -- Nazi collaboration shortly before and during the firts years of World War 2, including infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of 26th August, 1939 -- a historical fact, that opened all avenues for Hitler's plan of attacking Poland and guaranteed him oil and steel supplies in exchange for the Russian participation in division of Polish territory.
Music in my clip illustrates the sequence of the historical events:
1. Warsaw in last few weeks before the war: "Żegnaj, piękny śnie" (Goodbye, Beautiful Dream) sung by Tadeusz Faliszewski acc. by Jan Ławrusiewicz and his Hawaiian Guitar Trio, Syrena-Electro 1931 (Poland)
2. German invasion on Poland on 1st Sept., 1939 and the bombing of Warsaw: Tchaikovsky's 6th Sypmhony (Pathetique) -- Finale, performed by Berliner Philharmoniker cond. by Wilhelm Furtwaengler, Electrola ca 1939 (Germany)
3. Soviet invasion on Poland on 17th Sept, 1939: Boris Godunov (Musorgsky) Vaarlam's Song -- Fyodor Chaliapin, Noginskij Zavod ca 1939 (Russia)
4. The Stalinist "new deal" in annexed territory of Poland: fragment of "The Intarnational" (P.Degelter) played by Polish Army's Gala Orchestra dir. by mjr A.Wiśniewski, Muza ca 1950 (Poland)
- published: 17 Sep 2010
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Poles deported to Siberia in 1940 - 1 of 5 - second world war
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- Duration: 10:43
- Updated: 23 Feb 2013
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What Hollywood history won't teach you.
The untold and unacknowledged story of 1,700,000 Poles deported to Siberia in 1940 by the Russians.
In 1940, after Ru...
What Hollywood history won't teach you.
The untold and unacknowledged story of 1,700,000 Poles deported to Siberia in 1940 by the Russians.
In 1940, after Russia invaded Poland, Stalin deported 1.7 million Poles to slave labour camps in Siberia and Kazakhstan. Only one third of them survived.
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What Hollywood history won't teach you.
The untold and unacknowledged story of 1,700,000 Poles deported to Siberia in 1940 by the Russians.
In 1940, after Russia invaded Poland, Stalin deported 1.7 million Poles to slave labour camps in Siberia and Kazakhstan. Only one third of them survived.
- published: 23 Feb 2013
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POW labor in the Soviet Union
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- Duration: 1:50
- Updated: 10 Aug 2016
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Systematic POW labor in the Soviet Union is associated primarily with the outcomes of World War II and covers the period of 1939-1956, from the official formati...
Systematic POW labor in the Soviet Union is associated primarily with the outcomes of World War II and covers the period of 1939-1956, from the official formation of the first POW camps, to the repatriation of the last POWs, from the Kwantung Army.This form of forced labor was handled by the Chief Directorate for Prisoners of War and Internees Affairs of the NKVD, established in 1939 according to the NKVD Order no.0308 "On the Organization of POW Camps" to handle Polish POWs after the Soviet Invasion of Poland.The first POW camps were formed in the European part of the USSR.
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Systematic POW labor in the Soviet Union is associated primarily with the outcomes of World War II and covers the period of 1939-1956, from the official formation of the first POW camps, to the repatriation of the last POWs, from the Kwantung Army.This form of forced labor was handled by the Chief Directorate for Prisoners of War and Internees Affairs of the NKVD, established in 1939 according to the NKVD Order no.0308 "On the Organization of POW Camps" to handle Polish POWs after the Soviet Invasion of Poland.The first POW camps were formed in the European part of the USSR.
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Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939
Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939 As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. -Video is targeted to blind users Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA image source in video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARCVZplOqe8
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Soviet and German friends - Poland 1939
This is my personal answer to the Russian propaganda. This video shows the meeting of Soviet and German troops, setting up poles on the border in divided Poland. Starting a fire and then being proud you put it out is no glory... The 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation that started without a formal declaration of war on 17 September 1939, during the early stages of World War II, sixteen days after the beginning of the Nazi German attack on Poland. It ended in a decisive victory for the Soviet Union's Red Army. On the 23 August 1939 Soviets signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, with Nazi Germany. As a result, on 1 September, the Germans invaded Poland from the west; and on 17 September, the Red Army invaded Poland from the east. The Soviet government announced that i...
published: 25 Aug 2009 -
Joint Soviet-Nazi military parade in Poland. The history of Russian aggression.
Russian aggression has very long history, which modern Russia tries to forget. In the beginning of the Second World War, Hitler and Stalin were equal aggressors who invaded Poland from different sides. According to the Molotov- Ribbentrop Soviet-Nazi agreement, 52% of Poland had to become Soviet territory. Hitler and Stalin have agreed to invade Poland simultaneously from both sides. However, Stalin, who had his own plans of establishing communism in the whole Europe, didn’t keep his promise and invaded Poland only 17 days later, which allowed Soviets to look like “liberators”. Invasion of Poland by Soviet troops in 1939 was explained to Soviet people as protection of brotherly Ukrainian and Belorussian people from the German aggressor. Pretty much in the same way as modern Russian governm...
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21,768 murdered in Katyn massacre by the Soviet NKVD - April 1940 - Joseph Stalin Lavrentiy Beria
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, 'Katyń crime'), was a mass murder of thousands of Polish prisoners of war (primarily military officers), intellectuals, policemen, and other public servants by the Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps. Dated March 5, 1940, this official document was then approved (signed) by the entire Soviet Politburo including Joseph Stalin and Beria. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, the most commonly cited number being 21,768. The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin (Tver) and Kharkov prisons and elsewhere. About 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, the rest bein...
published: 13 Mar 2010 -
Seliger 2009: Polish prisoners of war memorial plates
Seliger 2009: Polish prisoners of war memorial plates
published: 04 Aug 2009 -
Experiences of a Political Prisoner in the Soviet Union | Dramatized Film | 1956
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published: 31 Jul 2016 -
Russia 1943 - Katyn Massacre Exhumation Mass Grave Polish Officers 4K
Russia 1943 - Katyn Massacre Exhumation Mass Grave Polish Military Officers executed by Soviet Union German History Archive - Unpublished Original Footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhFVVGA9Y_c&index;=1&list;=PLLEtu_bvreispSTeS_m08OcY8sC26bJVN Katyn Massacre, mass execution of Polish military officers by the Soviet Union during World War II. The discovery of the massacre precipitated the severance of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Polish government-in-exile in London. After Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union concluded their Nonaggression Pact of 1939 and Germany invaded Poland from the west, Soviet forces occupied the eastern half of Poland. As a consequence of this occupation, tens of thousands of Polish military personnel fell into Soviet hands and were interned ...
published: 21 May 2017 -
Soviet invasion on Poland - 17 Sept 1939
NOTE: This film celebrates the 71st anniversary of the Soviet invasion on Poland, which was conducted without declaration of war and while Poland was still in a bloody struggle with Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, after nazi Germany's attack of the 1st of September, 1939. Results of Soviet agression - the annexion of a half of Polish territory including historical cities of Lwów, Tarnopol, Stanisławów, Wilno or Grodno and annihilation of hundreds thousands of Polish citizens living in that area or deportation deep into Russia of another hundreds thousands -- are the wounds that still divide two nations and do not want to heal. Russia never admitted its crimes against Poland, especially the unbelievably cynical mass-murder of 20.000 of Polish officers in Katyń -- and, what is more -- the conte...
published: 17 Sep 2010 -
Poles deported to Siberia in 1940 - 1 of 5 - second world war
What Hollywood history won't teach you. The untold and unacknowledged story of 1,700,000 Poles deported to Siberia in 1940 by the Russians. In 1940, after Russia invaded Poland, Stalin deported 1.7 million Poles to slave labour camps in Siberia and Kazakhstan. Only one third of them survived.
published: 23 Feb 2013 -
POW labor in the Soviet Union
Systematic POW labor in the Soviet Union is associated primarily with the outcomes of World War II and covers the period of 1939-1956, from the official formation of the first POW camps, to the repatriation of the last POWs, from the Kwantung Army.This form of forced labor was handled by the Chief Directorate for Prisoners of War and Internees Affairs of the NKVD, established in 1939 according to the NKVD Order no.0308 "On the Organization of POW Camps" to handle Polish POWs after the Soviet Invasion of Poland.The first POW camps were formed in the European part of the USSR. This channel is dedicated to make Wikipedia, one of the biggest knowledge databases in the world available to people with limited vision. Article available under a Creative Commons license Image source in video
published: 10 Aug 2016
Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939
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Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939
As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became ...
Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939
As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became prisoners of war in the Soviet Union.
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Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939
As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became prisoners of war in the Soviet Union.
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- published: 16 Jan 2016
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Soviet and German friends - Poland 1939
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- Updated: 25 Aug 2009
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This is my personal answer to the Russian propaganda. This video shows the meeting of Soviet and German troops, setting up poles on the border in divided Poland...
This is my personal answer to the Russian propaganda. This video shows the meeting of Soviet and German troops, setting up poles on the border in divided Poland. Starting a fire and then being proud you put it out is no glory...
The 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation that started without a formal declaration of war on 17 September 1939, during the early stages of World War II, sixteen days after the beginning of the Nazi German attack on Poland. It ended in a decisive victory for the Soviet Union's Red Army.
On the 23 August 1939 Soviets signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, with Nazi Germany. As a result, on 1 September, the Germans invaded Poland from the west; and on 17 September, the Red Army invaded Poland from the east. The Soviet government announced that it was acting to protect the Ukrainians and Belarusians who lived in the eastern part of Poland, because the Polish state had collapsed in the face of the German attack and could no longer guarantee the security of its own citizens.
The Red Army quickly achieved its targets, vastly outnumbering Polish resistance. About 230,000 Polish soldiers or more (452 500) were taken prisoners of war. The Soviet government annexed the territory newly under its control and in November declared that the 13.5 million Polish citizens who lived there were now Soviet citizens. The Soviets quelled opposition by executions and by arresting thousands. They sent hundreds of thousands (estimates vary) to Siberia and other remote parts of the USSR in four major waves of deportations between 1939 and 1941.
The Soviet invasion, which the Politburo called "the liberation campaign", led to the incorporation of millions of Poles, western Ukrainians and western Belarusians into the Soviet Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics.
During the two years following the annexation, the Soviets also arrested approximately 100,000 Polish citizens and deported up to 1,500,000.
https://wn.com/Soviet_And_German_Friends_Poland_1939
This is my personal answer to the Russian propaganda. This video shows the meeting of Soviet and German troops, setting up poles on the border in divided Poland. Starting a fire and then being proud you put it out is no glory...
The 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation that started without a formal declaration of war on 17 September 1939, during the early stages of World War II, sixteen days after the beginning of the Nazi German attack on Poland. It ended in a decisive victory for the Soviet Union's Red Army.
On the 23 August 1939 Soviets signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, with Nazi Germany. As a result, on 1 September, the Germans invaded Poland from the west; and on 17 September, the Red Army invaded Poland from the east. The Soviet government announced that it was acting to protect the Ukrainians and Belarusians who lived in the eastern part of Poland, because the Polish state had collapsed in the face of the German attack and could no longer guarantee the security of its own citizens.
The Red Army quickly achieved its targets, vastly outnumbering Polish resistance. About 230,000 Polish soldiers or more (452 500) were taken prisoners of war. The Soviet government annexed the territory newly under its control and in November declared that the 13.5 million Polish citizens who lived there were now Soviet citizens. The Soviets quelled opposition by executions and by arresting thousands. They sent hundreds of thousands (estimates vary) to Siberia and other remote parts of the USSR in four major waves of deportations between 1939 and 1941.
The Soviet invasion, which the Politburo called "the liberation campaign", led to the incorporation of millions of Poles, western Ukrainians and western Belarusians into the Soviet Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics.
During the two years following the annexation, the Soviets also arrested approximately 100,000 Polish citizens and deported up to 1,500,000.
- published: 25 Aug 2009
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Joint Soviet-Nazi military parade in Poland. The history of Russian aggression.
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Russian aggression has very long history, which modern Russia tries to forget. In the beginning of the Second World War, Hitler and Stalin were equal aggressors...
Russian aggression has very long history, which modern Russia tries to forget. In the beginning of the Second World War, Hitler and Stalin were equal aggressors who invaded Poland from different sides. According to the Molotov- Ribbentrop Soviet-Nazi agreement, 52% of Poland had to become Soviet territory. Hitler and Stalin have agreed to invade Poland simultaneously from both sides. However, Stalin, who had his own plans of establishing communism in the whole Europe, didn’t keep his promise and invaded Poland only 17 days later, which allowed Soviets to look like “liberators”. Invasion of Poland by Soviet troops in 1939 was explained to Soviet people as protection of brotherly Ukrainian and Belorussian people from the German aggressor. Pretty much in the same way as modern Russian government explains to Russians its current invasion of Ukraine – as protection of brotherly Russian people from Ukrainian “fascists”.
Polish army didn’t have any chance. By 17 September 1939, about two weeks after German invasion of Poland, the Polish defence was already broken and the only hope was to retreat and reorganize in the east. However, on September 17th, 800,000-strong Soviet Red Army hit in the back and invaded Poland in violation of the Riga Peace Treaty, the Soviet-Polish Non-Aggression Pact, and other international treaties, both bilateral and multilateral. In total, 3,000–7,000 Polish soldiers died fighting the Red Army, with 230,000–450,000 taken prisoner. The Soviets also executed all the Polish officers they captured after the Battle of Szack, on 28 September 1939, and over 20,000 Polish military personnel and civilians perished in the Katyn massacre.
This video shows one example of Russia’s shameful history of collaborationism with fascist Germany: the German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_military_parade_in_Brest-Litovsk). The Battle of Brest-Litovsk took place between 14 and 17 September 1939. After three days of heavy fights for the stronghold in the town of Brześć, the Germans captured the fortress and the Poles withdrew. According to the terms of the 1939 German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact the territory around Brest as well as 52% of the then Poland was assigned to the Soviet Union. The Soviet 29th tank brigade under Brigadier Semyon Krivoshein reached the area of Brześć on September 21st and took over the fortress from the Wehrmacht. During that event a joint German-Soviet parade was held in the town, after which the German forces left the area. The XIX motorized Corps of Wehrmacht and the 29th Tank Brigade of the Red Army participated in the parade.
https://newsfromukr.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/joint-soviet-nazi-military-parade-in-brest-litovsk-the-history-of-russian-aggression/
https://wn.com/Joint_Soviet_Nazi_Military_Parade_In_Poland._The_History_Of_Russian_Aggression.
Russian aggression has very long history, which modern Russia tries to forget. In the beginning of the Second World War, Hitler and Stalin were equal aggressors who invaded Poland from different sides. According to the Molotov- Ribbentrop Soviet-Nazi agreement, 52% of Poland had to become Soviet territory. Hitler and Stalin have agreed to invade Poland simultaneously from both sides. However, Stalin, who had his own plans of establishing communism in the whole Europe, didn’t keep his promise and invaded Poland only 17 days later, which allowed Soviets to look like “liberators”. Invasion of Poland by Soviet troops in 1939 was explained to Soviet people as protection of brotherly Ukrainian and Belorussian people from the German aggressor. Pretty much in the same way as modern Russian government explains to Russians its current invasion of Ukraine – as protection of brotherly Russian people from Ukrainian “fascists”.
Polish army didn’t have any chance. By 17 September 1939, about two weeks after German invasion of Poland, the Polish defence was already broken and the only hope was to retreat and reorganize in the east. However, on September 17th, 800,000-strong Soviet Red Army hit in the back and invaded Poland in violation of the Riga Peace Treaty, the Soviet-Polish Non-Aggression Pact, and other international treaties, both bilateral and multilateral. In total, 3,000–7,000 Polish soldiers died fighting the Red Army, with 230,000–450,000 taken prisoner. The Soviets also executed all the Polish officers they captured after the Battle of Szack, on 28 September 1939, and over 20,000 Polish military personnel and civilians perished in the Katyn massacre.
This video shows one example of Russia’s shameful history of collaborationism with fascist Germany: the German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_military_parade_in_Brest-Litovsk). The Battle of Brest-Litovsk took place between 14 and 17 September 1939. After three days of heavy fights for the stronghold in the town of Brześć, the Germans captured the fortress and the Poles withdrew. According to the terms of the 1939 German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact the territory around Brest as well as 52% of the then Poland was assigned to the Soviet Union. The Soviet 29th tank brigade under Brigadier Semyon Krivoshein reached the area of Brześć on September 21st and took over the fortress from the Wehrmacht. During that event a joint German-Soviet parade was held in the town, after which the German forces left the area. The XIX motorized Corps of Wehrmacht and the 29th Tank Brigade of the Red Army participated in the parade.
https://newsfromukr.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/joint-soviet-nazi-military-parade-in-brest-litovsk-the-history-of-russian-aggression/
- published: 02 Nov 2015
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21,768 murdered in Katyn massacre by the Soviet NKVD - April 1940 - Joseph Stalin Lavrentiy Beria
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The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, 'Katyń crime'), was a mass murder of thousands of Polish prisoners of wa...
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, 'Katyń crime'), was a mass murder of thousands of Polish prisoners of war (primarily military officers), intellectuals, policemen, and other public servants by the Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps. Dated March 5, 1940, this official document was then approved (signed) by the entire Soviet Politburo including Joseph Stalin and Beria. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, the most commonly cited number being 21,768. The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin (Tver) and Kharkov 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, 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, and Belarusian intelligentsia of Polish citizenship.
Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943. The revelation led to the end 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 perpetration of the massacre by the NKVD. as well as the subsequent cover-up. An investigation by the Prosecutor's General Office of the Russian Federation has confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres, yet does not classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. This acknowledgement would have made necessary the prosecution of surviving perpetrators, which is what the Polish government had requested. The Russian government also does not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, which bars formal posthumous rehabilitation.
Executions:
After 3 April, 1940, at least 22,436 POWs and prisoners were executed: 15,131 POWs (most or all of them from the three camps) and at least 7,305 prisoners in western parts of Belarus and Ukraine. A 1956 memo from KGB chief Alexander Shelepin to First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev contains incomplete information about the personal files of 21,857 murdered POWs and prisoners. Of them 4,421 were from Kozielsk, 3,820 from Starobielsk, 6,311 from Ostashkov, and 7,305 from Belarusian and Ukrainian prisons. Shelepin's data for prisons should be considered a minimum, because his data for POWs is incomplete (he mentions 14,552 personal files for POWs, while at least 15,131 POWs "sent to NKVD" are mentioned in contemporary documents).
Discovery:
The Germans assembled and brought in a European commission consisting of twelve forensic experts and their staffs from Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Croatia, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Slovakia, and Hungary. After the war, all the experts, save for a Bulgarian and a Czech, reaffirmed their 1943 finding of Soviet guilt. The Katyn Massacre was beneficial to Nazi Germany, which used it to discredit the Soviet Union. Goebbels wrote in his diary on 14 April 1943: "We are now using the discovery of 12,000 Polish officers, murdered by the GPU, for anti-Bolshevik propaganda on a grand style. We sent neutral journalists and Polish intellectuals to the spot where they were found. Their reports now reaching us from ahead are gruesome. The Fuehrer has also given permission for us to hand out a drastic news item to the German press. I gave instructions to make the widest possible use of the propaganda material. We shall be able to live on it for a couple weeks." The Germans had succeeded in portraying the dark side of the Soviet government to the world and briefly raised the spectre of a communist monster rampaging across the territories of Western civilization; moreover, General Sikorski's unease threatened to unravel the alliance between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union.
https://wn.com/21,768_Murdered_In_Katyn_Massacre_By_The_Soviet_Nkvd_April_1940_Joseph_Stalin_Lavrentiy_Beria
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, 'Katyń crime'), was a mass murder of thousands of Polish prisoners of war (primarily military officers), intellectuals, policemen, and other public servants by the Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps. Dated March 5, 1940, this official document was then approved (signed) by the entire Soviet Politburo including Joseph Stalin and Beria. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, the most commonly cited number being 21,768. The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin (Tver) and Kharkov 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, 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, and Belarusian intelligentsia of Polish citizenship.
Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943. The revelation led to the end 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 perpetration of the massacre by the NKVD. as well as the subsequent cover-up. An investigation by the Prosecutor's General Office of the Russian Federation has confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres, yet does not classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. This acknowledgement would have made necessary the prosecution of surviving perpetrators, which is what the Polish government had requested. The Russian government also does not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, which bars formal posthumous rehabilitation.
Executions:
After 3 April, 1940, at least 22,436 POWs and prisoners were executed: 15,131 POWs (most or all of them from the three camps) and at least 7,305 prisoners in western parts of Belarus and Ukraine. A 1956 memo from KGB chief Alexander Shelepin to First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev contains incomplete information about the personal files of 21,857 murdered POWs and prisoners. Of them 4,421 were from Kozielsk, 3,820 from Starobielsk, 6,311 from Ostashkov, and 7,305 from Belarusian and Ukrainian prisons. Shelepin's data for prisons should be considered a minimum, because his data for POWs is incomplete (he mentions 14,552 personal files for POWs, while at least 15,131 POWs "sent to NKVD" are mentioned in contemporary documents).
Discovery:
The Germans assembled and brought in a European commission consisting of twelve forensic experts and their staffs from Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Croatia, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Slovakia, and Hungary. After the war, all the experts, save for a Bulgarian and a Czech, reaffirmed their 1943 finding of Soviet guilt. The Katyn Massacre was beneficial to Nazi Germany, which used it to discredit the Soviet Union. Goebbels wrote in his diary on 14 April 1943: "We are now using the discovery of 12,000 Polish officers, murdered by the GPU, for anti-Bolshevik propaganda on a grand style. We sent neutral journalists and Polish intellectuals to the spot where they were found. Their reports now reaching us from ahead are gruesome. The Fuehrer has also given permission for us to hand out a drastic news item to the German press. I gave instructions to make the widest possible use of the propaganda material. We shall be able to live on it for a couple weeks." The Germans had succeeded in portraying the dark side of the Soviet government to the world and briefly raised the spectre of a communist monster rampaging across the territories of Western civilization; moreover, General Sikorski's unease threatened to unravel the alliance between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union.
- published: 13 Mar 2010
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Seliger 2009: Polish prisoners of war memorial plates
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Seliger 2009: Polish prisoners of war memorial plates
Seliger 2009: Polish prisoners of war memorial plates
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Experiences of a Political Prisoner in the Soviet Union | Dramatized Film | 1956
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- Duration: 24:03
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This film documents the personal experiences of a political prisoner in the Soviet Union, who described the psychological methods used to try to extract a confession. This dramatization is certainly a compelling true story of individual courage. Its message is that American democracy was morally superior to Soviet Communism.
The film based on the true story of the book "Invitation to Moscow" by Zbigniew Stypułkowski who was a member of the "Trial of the Sixteen". The Trial of the Sixteen (Polish: Proces szesnastu) was a staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Underground State held by the Soviet Union in Moscow, 1945.
Historical background / context:
The Polish Underground State (Polish: Polskie Państwo Podziemne, also known as the Polish Secret State) is a collective term for the underground resistance organizations in Poland during World War 2, both military and civilian, that were loyal to the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile in London. The first elements of the Underground State were established in the final days of the German invasion of Poland that began in September 1939. The Underground State was perceived by supporters as a legal continuation of the pre-war Republic of Poland (and its institutions) that waged an armed struggle against the country's occupying powers: Germany and the Soviet Union.
At the end of the World War 2, sixteen leaders of the Polish underground movement had been invited by Moscow to help organize the new "Polish Government of National Unity" and were subsequently captured by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. In June 1945, all of them were convicted of "drawing up plans for military action against the Soviet Union".
For more information about the Trial of the Sixteen see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_Sixteen
Experiences of a Political Prisoner in the Soviet Union | Dramatized Film | 1956
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This film documents the personal experiences of a political prisoner in the Soviet Union, who described the psychological methods used to try to extract a confession. This dramatization is certainly a compelling true story of individual courage. Its message is that American democracy was morally superior to Soviet Communism.
The film based on the true story of the book "Invitation to Moscow" by Zbigniew Stypułkowski who was a member of the "Trial of the Sixteen". The Trial of the Sixteen (Polish: Proces szesnastu) was a staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Underground State held by the Soviet Union in Moscow, 1945.
Historical background / context:
The Polish Underground State (Polish: Polskie Państwo Podziemne, also known as the Polish Secret State) is a collective term for the underground resistance organizations in Poland during World War 2, both military and civilian, that were loyal to the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile in London. The first elements of the Underground State were established in the final days of the German invasion of Poland that began in September 1939. The Underground State was perceived by supporters as a legal continuation of the pre-war Republic of Poland (and its institutions) that waged an armed struggle against the country's occupying powers: Germany and the Soviet Union.
At the end of the World War 2, sixteen leaders of the Polish underground movement had been invited by Moscow to help organize the new "Polish Government of National Unity" and were subsequently captured by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. In June 1945, all of them were convicted of "drawing up plans for military action against the Soviet Union".
For more information about the Trial of the Sixteen see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_Sixteen
Experiences of a Political Prisoner in the Soviet Union | Dramatized Film | 1956
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- published: 31 Jul 2016
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Russia 1943 - Katyn Massacre Exhumation Mass Grave Polish Officers 4K
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Russia 1943 - Katyn Massacre Exhumation Mass Grave Polish Military Officers executed by Soviet Union
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Russia 1943 - Katyn Massacre Exhumation Mass Grave Polish Military Officers executed by Soviet Union
German History Archive - Unpublished Original Footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhFVVGA9Y_c&index;=1&list;=PLLEtu_bvreispSTeS_m08OcY8sC26bJVN
Katyn Massacre, mass execution of Polish military officers by the Soviet Union during World War II. The discovery of the massacre precipitated the severance of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Polish government-in-exile in London.
After Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union concluded their Nonaggression Pact of 1939 and Germany invaded Poland from the west, Soviet forces occupied the eastern half of Poland. As a consequence of this occupation, tens of thousands of Polish military personnel fell into Soviet hands and were interned in prison camps inside the Soviet Union. But after the Germans invaded the Soviet Union (June 1941), the Polish government-in-exile (located in London) and the Soviet government agreed to cooperate against Germany, and a Polish army on Soviet territory was to be formed. The Polish general Władysław Anders began organizing this army, but when he requested that 15,000 Polish prisoners of war whom the Soviets had once held at camps near Smolensk be transferred to his command, the Soviet government informed him in December 1941 that most of those prisoners had escaped to Manchuria and could not be located.
The fate of the missing prisoners remained a mystery. Then on April 13, 1943, the Germans announced that they had discovered mass graves of Polish officers in the Katyn forest near Smolensk, in western Russian S.F.S.R. A total of 4,443 corpses were recovered that had apparently been shot from behind and then piled in stacks and buried. Investigators identified the corpses as the Polish officers who had been interned at a Soviet prison camp near Smolensk and accused the Soviet authorities of having executed the prisoners in May 1940. In response to these charges, the Soviet government claimed that the Poles had been engaged in construction work west of Smolensk in 1941 and the invading German army had killed them after overrunning that area in August 1941. But both German and Red Cross investigations of the Katyn corpses then produced firm physical evidence that the massacre took place in early 1940, at a time when the area was still under Soviet control.
The Polish government-in-exile in London requested that the International Committee of the Red Cross examine the graves and also asked the Soviet government to provide official reports on the fates of the remaining missing prisoners. The Soviet government refused these demands, and on April 25, 1943, the Soviets broke diplomatic relations with the Polish government in London. The Soviets then set about establishing a Polish government-in-exile composed of Polish communists.
The Katyn Massacre left a deep scar in Polish-Soviet relations during the remainder of the war and afterward. For Poles, Katyn became a symbol of the many victims of Stalinism. Although a 1952 U.S. congressional inquiry concluded that the Soviet Union had been responsible for the massacre, Soviet leaders insisted for decades that the Polish officers found at Katyn had been killed by the invading Germans in 1941. This explanation was accepted without protest by successive Polish communist governments until the late 1980s, when the Soviet Union allowed a noncommunist coalition government to come to power in Poland. In March 1989 this government officially shifted the blame for the Katyn Massacre from the Germans to the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. In 1992 the Russian government released documents proving that the Soviet Politburo and the NKVD had been responsible for the massacre and cover-up and revealing that there may have been more than 20,000 victims. In 2000 a memorial was opened at the site of the killings in Katyn.
On April 7, 2010, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin joined Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a ceremony commemorating the massacre, marking the first time that a Russian leader had taken part in such a commemoration. Three days later, on April 10, a plane carrying Polish Pres. Lech Kaczynski to another commemoration ceremony crashed near Smolensk and the Katyn site, killing Kaczynski, his wife, the head of the national security bureau, the president of the national bank, the army chief of staff, and a number of other Polish government officials.
In November 2010 the State Duma (the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly) officially declared that Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders were responsible for ordering the execution of the Polish officers at Katyn.
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Russia 1943 - Katyn Massacre Exhumation Mass Grave Polish Military Officers executed by Soviet Union
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Katyn Massacre, mass execution of Polish military officers by the Soviet Union during World War II. The discovery of the massacre precipitated the severance of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Polish government-in-exile in London.
After Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union concluded their Nonaggression Pact of 1939 and Germany invaded Poland from the west, Soviet forces occupied the eastern half of Poland. As a consequence of this occupation, tens of thousands of Polish military personnel fell into Soviet hands and were interned in prison camps inside the Soviet Union. But after the Germans invaded the Soviet Union (June 1941), the Polish government-in-exile (located in London) and the Soviet government agreed to cooperate against Germany, and a Polish army on Soviet territory was to be formed. The Polish general Władysław Anders began organizing this army, but when he requested that 15,000 Polish prisoners of war whom the Soviets had once held at camps near Smolensk be transferred to his command, the Soviet government informed him in December 1941 that most of those prisoners had escaped to Manchuria and could not be located.
The fate of the missing prisoners remained a mystery. Then on April 13, 1943, the Germans announced that they had discovered mass graves of Polish officers in the Katyn forest near Smolensk, in western Russian S.F.S.R. A total of 4,443 corpses were recovered that had apparently been shot from behind and then piled in stacks and buried. Investigators identified the corpses as the Polish officers who had been interned at a Soviet prison camp near Smolensk and accused the Soviet authorities of having executed the prisoners in May 1940. In response to these charges, the Soviet government claimed that the Poles had been engaged in construction work west of Smolensk in 1941 and the invading German army had killed them after overrunning that area in August 1941. But both German and Red Cross investigations of the Katyn corpses then produced firm physical evidence that the massacre took place in early 1940, at a time when the area was still under Soviet control.
The Polish government-in-exile in London requested that the International Committee of the Red Cross examine the graves and also asked the Soviet government to provide official reports on the fates of the remaining missing prisoners. The Soviet government refused these demands, and on April 25, 1943, the Soviets broke diplomatic relations with the Polish government in London. The Soviets then set about establishing a Polish government-in-exile composed of Polish communists.
The Katyn Massacre left a deep scar in Polish-Soviet relations during the remainder of the war and afterward. For Poles, Katyn became a symbol of the many victims of Stalinism. Although a 1952 U.S. congressional inquiry concluded that the Soviet Union had been responsible for the massacre, Soviet leaders insisted for decades that the Polish officers found at Katyn had been killed by the invading Germans in 1941. This explanation was accepted without protest by successive Polish communist governments until the late 1980s, when the Soviet Union allowed a noncommunist coalition government to come to power in Poland. In March 1989 this government officially shifted the blame for the Katyn Massacre from the Germans to the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. In 1992 the Russian government released documents proving that the Soviet Politburo and the NKVD had been responsible for the massacre and cover-up and revealing that there may have been more than 20,000 victims. In 2000 a memorial was opened at the site of the killings in Katyn.
On April 7, 2010, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin joined Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a ceremony commemorating the massacre, marking the first time that a Russian leader had taken part in such a commemoration. Three days later, on April 10, a plane carrying Polish Pres. Lech Kaczynski to another commemoration ceremony crashed near Smolensk and the Katyn site, killing Kaczynski, his wife, the head of the national security bureau, the president of the national bank, the army chief of staff, and a number of other Polish government officials.
In November 2010 the State Duma (the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly) officially declared that Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders were responsible for ordering the execution of the Polish officers at Katyn.
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Soviet invasion on Poland - 17 Sept 1939
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NOTE: This film celebrates the 71st anniversary of the Soviet invasion on Poland, which was conducted without declaration of war and while Poland was still in a...
NOTE: This film celebrates the 71st anniversary of the Soviet invasion on Poland, which was conducted without declaration of war and while Poland was still in a bloody struggle with Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, after nazi Germany's attack of the 1st of September, 1939. Results of Soviet agression - the annexion of a half of Polish territory including historical cities of Lwów, Tarnopol, Stanisławów, Wilno or Grodno and annihilation of hundreds thousands of Polish citizens living in that area or deportation deep into Russia of another hundreds thousands -- are the wounds that still divide two nations and do not want to heal. Russia never admitted its crimes against Poland, especially the unbelievably cynical mass-murder of 20.000 of Polish officers in Katyń -- and, what is more -- the contemporary Russian propaganda still more and more manipulates the historical truth with the help of many scientific authorities -- tending to accusing Poland for "aggressive attitude" towards Russia throughout the Polish-Russian history, inevitably resulting in "conflicts" like was "the Katyń affair" (as they call it). In that light often skipped is the question of obvious Russian -- Nazi collaboration shortly before and during the firts years of World War 2, including infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of 26th August, 1939 -- a historical fact, that opened all avenues for Hitler's plan of attacking Poland and guaranteed him oil and steel supplies in exchange for the Russian participation in division of Polish territory.
Music in my clip illustrates the sequence of the historical events:
1. Warsaw in last few weeks before the war: "Żegnaj, piękny śnie" (Goodbye, Beautiful Dream) sung by Tadeusz Faliszewski acc. by Jan Ławrusiewicz and his Hawaiian Guitar Trio, Syrena-Electro 1931 (Poland)
2. German invasion on Poland on 1st Sept., 1939 and the bombing of Warsaw: Tchaikovsky's 6th Sypmhony (Pathetique) -- Finale, performed by Berliner Philharmoniker cond. by Wilhelm Furtwaengler, Electrola ca 1939 (Germany)
3. Soviet invasion on Poland on 17th Sept, 1939: Boris Godunov (Musorgsky) Vaarlam's Song -- Fyodor Chaliapin, Noginskij Zavod ca 1939 (Russia)
4. The Stalinist "new deal" in annexed territory of Poland: fragment of "The Intarnational" (P.Degelter) played by Polish Army's Gala Orchestra dir. by mjr A.Wiśniewski, Muza ca 1950 (Poland)
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NOTE: This film celebrates the 71st anniversary of the Soviet invasion on Poland, which was conducted without declaration of war and while Poland was still in a bloody struggle with Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, after nazi Germany's attack of the 1st of September, 1939. Results of Soviet agression - the annexion of a half of Polish territory including historical cities of Lwów, Tarnopol, Stanisławów, Wilno or Grodno and annihilation of hundreds thousands of Polish citizens living in that area or deportation deep into Russia of another hundreds thousands -- are the wounds that still divide two nations and do not want to heal. Russia never admitted its crimes against Poland, especially the unbelievably cynical mass-murder of 20.000 of Polish officers in Katyń -- and, what is more -- the contemporary Russian propaganda still more and more manipulates the historical truth with the help of many scientific authorities -- tending to accusing Poland for "aggressive attitude" towards Russia throughout the Polish-Russian history, inevitably resulting in "conflicts" like was "the Katyń affair" (as they call it). In that light often skipped is the question of obvious Russian -- Nazi collaboration shortly before and during the firts years of World War 2, including infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of 26th August, 1939 -- a historical fact, that opened all avenues for Hitler's plan of attacking Poland and guaranteed him oil and steel supplies in exchange for the Russian participation in division of Polish territory.
Music in my clip illustrates the sequence of the historical events:
1. Warsaw in last few weeks before the war: "Żegnaj, piękny śnie" (Goodbye, Beautiful Dream) sung by Tadeusz Faliszewski acc. by Jan Ławrusiewicz and his Hawaiian Guitar Trio, Syrena-Electro 1931 (Poland)
2. German invasion on Poland on 1st Sept., 1939 and the bombing of Warsaw: Tchaikovsky's 6th Sypmhony (Pathetique) -- Finale, performed by Berliner Philharmoniker cond. by Wilhelm Furtwaengler, Electrola ca 1939 (Germany)
3. Soviet invasion on Poland on 17th Sept, 1939: Boris Godunov (Musorgsky) Vaarlam's Song -- Fyodor Chaliapin, Noginskij Zavod ca 1939 (Russia)
4. The Stalinist "new deal" in annexed territory of Poland: fragment of "The Intarnational" (P.Degelter) played by Polish Army's Gala Orchestra dir. by mjr A.Wiśniewski, Muza ca 1950 (Poland)
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Poles deported to Siberia in 1940 - 1 of 5 - second world war
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What Hollywood history won't teach you.
The untold and unacknowledged story of 1,700,000 Poles deported to Siberia in 1940 by the Russians.
In 1940, after Ru...
What Hollywood history won't teach you.
The untold and unacknowledged story of 1,700,000 Poles deported to Siberia in 1940 by the Russians.
In 1940, after Russia invaded Poland, Stalin deported 1.7 million Poles to slave labour camps in Siberia and Kazakhstan. Only one third of them survived.
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What Hollywood history won't teach you.
The untold and unacknowledged story of 1,700,000 Poles deported to Siberia in 1940 by the Russians.
In 1940, after Russia invaded Poland, Stalin deported 1.7 million Poles to slave labour camps in Siberia and Kazakhstan. Only one third of them survived.
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POW labor in the Soviet Union
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Systematic POW labor in the Soviet Union is associated primarily with the outcomes of World War II and covers the period of 1939-1956, from the official formati...
Systematic POW labor in the Soviet Union is associated primarily with the outcomes of World War II and covers the period of 1939-1956, from the official formation of the first POW camps, to the repatriation of the last POWs, from the Kwantung Army.This form of forced labor was handled by the Chief Directorate for Prisoners of War and Internees Affairs of the NKVD, established in 1939 according to the NKVD Order no.0308 "On the Organization of POW Camps" to handle Polish POWs after the Soviet Invasion of Poland.The first POW camps were formed in the European part of the USSR.
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Systematic POW labor in the Soviet Union is associated primarily with the outcomes of World War II and covers the period of 1939-1956, from the official formation of the first POW camps, to the repatriation of the last POWs, from the Kwantung Army.This form of forced labor was handled by the Chief Directorate for Prisoners of War and Internees Affairs of the NKVD, established in 1939 according to the NKVD Order no.0308 "On the Organization of POW Camps" to handle Polish POWs after the Soviet Invasion of Poland.The first POW camps were formed in the European part of the USSR.
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