- published: 13 Mar 2010
- views: 188060
Create your page here
-
remove the playlistKatyn Massacre
- remove the playlistKatyn Massacre
Please tell us which country and city you'd like to see the weather in.
back to playlist
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.
The Katyn massacre of "Polish nationalists and counter-revolutionaries" had been blamed on the Germans until Boris Yeltsin released a secret memo from Soviet archives dated 5 March 1940 in which Stalin authorised the execution of 25 700 Poles from Kozelsk, Ostashkov and Starobels camps, and from certain prisons of Western Ukraine and Belarus. In this documentary, Polish and Russian historians, investigators and film makers reconstruct the Katyn wood massacre from the available evidence.
- published: 12 Dec 2012
- views: 3987
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre was a mass murder of thousands of Polish military officers, policemen, intellectuals and civilian prisoners of war by Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps dated March 5 1940
Hey Western Europe remember this ? Or you love red flags,lenin,stalin .Commie murder in world 100mln people and now ......more idiots speaking "We love reds" ,"We love coomie" This is murder.
- published: 30 Mar 2009
- views: 273513
Película: Katyn
Escena de los fusilamientos en los Bosques de Katyn.
- published: 21 Mar 2011
- views: 17384
-Picstory (History)
-For Educational Purposes Only ( I Own No Rights To These Photos/Music)
-Collection Of Photos Taken Prior/Therefore After Events Have Taken Place
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, 'Katyń crime'; Russian: Катынский расстрел Katynskij ra'sstrel 'Katyn shooting'), was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, in April and May 1940. The massacre was prompted by NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all captive members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, with 21,768 being a lower limit.[1] The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere. Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, with the rest being Polish intelligentsia arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests".[1]
The term "Katyn massacre" originally referred specifically to the massacre at Katyn Forest, near the villages of Katyn and Gnezdovo (approximately 19 kilometers [12 miles] west of Smolensk, Russia), of Polish military officers in the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp. This was the largest of several simultaneous executions of prisoners of war. Other executions occurred at the geographically distant Starobelsk and Ostashkov camps, at the NKVD headquarters in Smolensk, and at prisons in Kalinin (Tver), Kharkiv, Moscow, and other Soviet cities. Still more executions took place at various locations in Belarus and Western Ukraine, based on special lists of Polish prisoners, prepared by the NKVD specifically for those regions. The modern investigations of the killings covered not only the massacre at Katyn forest, but also the other mass murders mentioned above. Polish organisations, such as the Katyn Committee and the Federation of Katyn Families, consider the victims murdered at the locations other than Katyn as part of the overall massacre.[1]
The government of Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943. When the London-based Polish government-in-exile asked for an investigation by the International Red Cross, Stalin immediately severed diplomatic relations with it. The Soviet Union claimed the victims had been murdered by the Nazis, and continued to deny responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the perpetration of the killings by the NKVD, as well as the subsequent cover-up by the Soviet government.[1][2][3][a]
An investigation conducted by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Soviet Union (1990--1991) and the Russian Federation (1991--2004), confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres. It was able to confirm the deaths of 1,803 Polish citizens but refused to classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. The investigation was closed on grounds that the perpetrators of the massacre were already dead, and since the Russian government would not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, formal posthumous rehabilitation was ruled out.[4] The human rights society Memorial issued a statement which declared "this termination of investigation is inadmissible" and that their confirmation of only 1,803 people killed "requires explanation because it is common knowledge that more than 14,500 prisoners were killed".[5] In November 2010, the Russian State Duma approved a declaration blaming Stalin and other Soviet officials for having personally ordered the massacre
Without Knowledge Of Self And Past, One Is Forced To Always Relive The Past.
WAKE UP.
- published: 27 Oct 2013
- views: 26403
Newly declassified U.S. army documents reveal that two American POWs sent secret coded messages to Army intelligence after their 1943 visit to Katyn, pointing to Soviet guilt for the 1940 massacre.
After witnessing rows of corpses in the Katyn forest, on the western edge of Russia, the American POWs told Washington they believed the Nazi claims that Soviets had carried out the killings of 22,000 Polish officers.
Having seen the advanced state of decay of the bodies, the POWs concluded that the killings must have been carried out by the Soviets rather than the Nazis who had only recently invaded the area surrounding the Katyn forest.
The documents shed further light on decades of suppression of Soviet guilt within the U.S. government which began during WWII when the blame for the massacre was being pointed at Nazi Germany. The long-held suspicion is that President Franklin Roosevelt didn't want to anger Josef Stalin, an ally whom the Americans were counting on to defeat Germany and Japan.
The testimony about the infamous massacre of Polish officers might have lessened the tragic fate that befell Poland under the Soviets, some scholars believe.
Documents released Monday lend weight to the belief that suppression within the highest levels of the U.S. government helped cover up Soviet guilt in the killing of some 22,000 Polish officers and other prisoners in the Katyn forest and other locations in 1940.
The evidence is among about 1,000 pages of newly declassified documents that the United States National Archives is releasing Monday and putting online.
The most dramatic revelation so far is the evidence of the secret codes sent by the two American POWs — something historians were unaware of and which adds to evidence that the Roosevelt administration knew of the Soviet atrocity relatively early on.
Cover up: Secret codes sent by the two American POWs about the massacre¿ something historians were unaware of - adds to evidence that the Roosevelt administration knew of the Soviet atrocity relatively early on
The declassified documents also show the United States maintaining that it couldn't conclusively determine guilt until a Russian admission in 1990 — a statement that looks improbable given the huge body of evidence of Soviet guilt that had already emerged decades earlier. Historians say the new material helps to flesh out the story of what the U.S. knew and when.
The Soviet secret police killed the 22,000 Poles with shots to the back of the head. Their aim was to eliminate a military and intellectual elite that would have put up stiff resistance to Soviet control. The men were among Poland's most accomplished — officers and reserve officers who in their civilian lives worked as doctors, lawyers, teachers, or as other professionals. Their loss has proven an enduring wound to the Polish nation.
In the early years after the war, outrage by some American officials over the concealment inspired the creation of a special U.S. Congressional committee to investigate Katyn.
In a final report released in 1952, the committee declared there was no doubt of Soviet guilt, and called the massacre 'one of the most barbarous international crimes in world history.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2201226/Declassified-documents-prove-U-S-DID-help-cover-1940-Katyn-massacre-Soviets-slaughtered-22-000-Polish-officers.html#ixzz27MFl2MTS
- published: 24 Sep 2012
- views: 2614
Taken from a rare VHS ive owned since the early 90's.This is part 1 of 4. Check my channel for the rest of the parts.
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, 'Katyń crime'; Russian: Катынский расстрел), was a mass murder[1] of Polish nationals carried out by the Soviet secret police NKVD in April--May 1940. It was based on Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was then approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin.[2][3] The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, the most commonly cited number being 21,768.[4] The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkov prisons and elsewhere.[5] About 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, the rest being Polish doctors, professors, lawmakers, police officers, and other public servants arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests."[4] Since Poland's conscription system required every unexempted university graduate to become a reserve officer,[6] the NKVD was able to round up much of the Polish intelligentsia, and the Russian, Ukrainian, Tatar, Jewish, Georgian,[7] and Belarusian intelligentsia of Polish citizenship.[8]
The term "Katyn massacre" originally referred specifically to the massacre at Katyn Forest, near the villages of Katyn and Gnezdovo (ca. 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Smolensk, Russia), of Polish military officers in the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp. This was the largest of several roughly simultaneous executions of prisoners of war; the others included executions at the geographically distant Starobelsk and Ostashkov camps,[9] and the executions of political prisoners from West Belarus and West Ukraine,[10] shot at Katyn Forest, at the NKVD headquarters in Smolensk, at a Smolensk slaughterhouse,[2] and at prisons in Kalinin (Tver), Kharkov, Moscow, and other Soviet cities.[4] The Belorussian and Ukrainian Katyn Lists are NKVD lists of names of Polish prisoners to be murdered at various locations in Belarus and Western Ukraine.[4] The modern Polish investigation of the Katyn massacre covered not only the massacre at Katyn forest, but also the other mass murders mentioned above. There are Polish organisations such as the Katyn Committee and the Federation of Katyn Families, which again are inclusive of victims of the various mass murders at the various locations.[4]
Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943.[11] 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 responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the perpetration of the killings by the NKVD,[4][12][13] as well as the subsequent cover-up.[14]
An investigation conducted by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Soviet Union (1990--1991) and the Russian Federation (1991--2004), has confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres. It was able to confirm the deaths of 1,803 Polish citizens but refused to classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. The investigation was closed on grounds that the perpetrators of the massacre were already dead, and since the Russian government would not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, formal posthumous rehabilitation was ruled out.[15] The human rights society Memorial issued a statement which declared "this termination of investigation is inadmissible" and that their confirmation of only 1,803 people killed "requires explanation because it is common knowledge that more than 14,500 prisoners were killed."[16]
In November 2010, the Russian State Duma approved a declaration blaming Stalin and other Soviet officials for having personally ordered the massacre.[17]
- published: 20 Feb 2011
- views: 9829
►My channel: http://youtube.com/TheBestFilmArchives
►SUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/TheBestFilmArchives?sub_confirmation=1
►Google+: http://plus.google.com/+TheBestFilmArchives
►Facebook: http://facebook.com/TheBestFilmArchives
►Twitter: http://twitter.com/BestFilmArch
This film explores the Katyn Forest massacre of World War II.
The original title of this video is: "Katyn (1973)".
About the massacre
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, 'Katyń crime'; Russian: Катынский расстрел Katynskij ra'sstrel 'Katyn shooting'), was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, in April and May 1940. The massacre was prompted by Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, with 21,768 being a lower bound. The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere. Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers taken prisonerduring the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, with the rest being Polish intelligentsia arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests."
The term "Katyn massacre" originally referred specifically to the massacre at Katyn Forest, near the villages of Katyn and Gnezdovo (approximately 19 kilometers/12 miles west of Smolensk, Russia), of Polish military officers in the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp. This was the largest of several simultaneous executions of prisoners of war. Other executions occurred at the geographically distant Starobelsk and Ostashkov camps, at the NKVD headquarters in Smolensk, and at prisons in Kalinin (Tver), Kharkiv, Moscow, and other Soviet cities. Still more executions took place at various locations in Belarus and Western Ukraine, based on special lists of Polish prisoners, prepared by the NKVD specifically for those regions. The modern Polish investigation of the killings covered not only the massacre at Katyn forest, but also the other mass murders mentioned above. Polish organisations, such as theKatyn Committee and the Federation of Katyn Families, consider the victims murdered at the locations other than Katyn as part of the overall massacre.
The government of Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943. When the London-based Polish government-in-exile asked for an investigation by the International Red Cross, Stalin immediately severed diplomatic relations with it. The Soviet Union claimed the victims had been murdered by the Nazis, and continued to deny responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the perpetration of the killings by the NKVD, as well as the subsequent cover-up.
An investigation conducted by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Soviet Union (1990--1991) and the Russian Federation (1991--2004), has confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres. It was able to confirm the deaths of 1,803 Polish citizens but refused to classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. The investigation was closed on grounds that the perpetrators of the massacre were already dead, and since the Russian government would not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, formal posthumous rehabilitation was ruled out. The human rights society Memorial issued a statement which declared "this termination of investigation is inadmissible" and that their confirmation of only 1,803 people killed "requires explanation because it is common knowledge that more than 14,500 prisoners were killed." In November 2010, the Russian State Duma approved a declaration blaming Stalin and other Soviet officials for having personally ordered the massacre.
The fate of the Polish prisoners was raised soon after the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. The Polish government-in-exile and the Soviet government signed the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement which announced the willingness of both to fight together against Nazi Germany and for a Polish army to be formed on Soviet territory. The Polish general Władysław Anders began organizing this army, and soon he requested information about the Polish officers who were missing. During a personal meeting, Stalin assured him and Władysław Sikorski, the Polish Prime Minister, that all the Poles were freed, and that not all could be accounted because the Soviets "lost track" of them in Manchuria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
Katyn (1973)
- published: 25 Mar 2013
- views: 10326
Joseph Stalin was responsible for the mass killing of Polish prisoners in Western Russia in 1940 - Russia's parliament accepted the Soviet leader ordered the Katyn massacre that has soured relations between Moscow and Warsaw for years.
RT on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RTnews
RT on Twitter: http://twitter.com/RT_com
- published: 26 Nov 2010
- views: 28209
location on Google Map
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, 'Katyń crime'; Russian: Катынский расстрел Katynskij ra'sstrel 'Katyn shooting'), was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, in April and May 1940. The massacre was prompted by Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, with 21,768 being a lower bound. The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere. Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, with the rest being Polish intelligentsia arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests."
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин; born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Джугашвили; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 and later held the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. While the office of the General Secretary was officially elective and not initially regarded as the top position in the Soviet state, Stalin managed to use it to consolidate more and more power in his hands after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924 and gradually put down all opposition groups within the Communist Party. This included Leon Trotsky, a socialist theorist and the principal critic of Stalin among the early Soviet leaders, who was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929. Whereas Trotsky was an exponent of permanent revolution, it was Stalin's concept of socialism in one country that became the primary focus of Soviet politics.
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
Radio Stations - Katyn massacre
SEARCH FOR RADIOS
- Loading...
-
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. -
26:08The Katyn massacre, a truth revealed
The Katyn massacre, a truth revealedThe Katyn massacre, a truth revealed
The Katyn massacre of "Polish nationalists and counter-revolutionaries" had been blamed on the Germans until Boris Yeltsin released a secret memo from Soviet archives dated 5 March 1940 in which Stalin authorised the execution of 25 700 Poles from Kozelsk, Ostashkov and Starobels camps, and from certain prisons of Western Ukraine and Belarus. In this documentary, Polish and Russian historians, investigators and film makers reconstruct the Katyn wood massacre from the available evidence. -
4:37KATYN MASSACRE execution of Polish officers
KATYN MASSACRE execution of Polish officersKATYN MASSACRE execution of Polish officers
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre was a mass murder of thousands of Polish military officers, policemen, intellectuals and civilian prisoners of war by Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps dated March 5 1940 Hey Western Europe remember this ? Or you love red flags,lenin,stalin .Commie murder in world 100mln people and now ......more idiots speaking "We love reds" ,"We love coomie" This is murder. -
8:15Katyn Massacre
Katyn MassacreKatyn Massacre
Película: Katyn Escena de los fusilamientos en los Bosques de Katyn. -
11:46(WARNING-GRAPHIC) Katyn Forest Massacre - Soviet Union - NKVD (SECRET POLICE) Joseph Stalin.
(WARNING-GRAPHIC) Katyn Forest Massacre - Soviet Union - NKVD (SECRET POLICE) Joseph Stalin.(WARNING-GRAPHIC) Katyn Forest Massacre - Soviet Union - NKVD (SECRET POLICE) Joseph Stalin.
-Picstory (History) -For Educational Purposes Only ( I Own No Rights To These Photos/Music) -Collection Of Photos Taken Prior/Therefore After Events Have Taken Place The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, 'Katyń crime'; Russian: Катынский расстрел Katynskij ra'sstrel 'Katyn shooting'), was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, in April and May 1940. The massacre was prompted by NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all captive members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, with 21,768 being a lower limit.[1] The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere. Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, with the rest being Polish intelligentsia arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests".[1] The term "Katyn massacre" originally referred specifically to the massacre at Katyn Forest, near the villages of Katyn and Gnezdovo (approximately 19 kilometers [12 miles] west of Smolensk, Russia), of Polish military officers in the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp. This was the largest of several simultaneous executions of prisoners of war. Other executions occurred at the geographically distant Starobelsk and Ostashkov camps, at the NKVD headquarters in Smolensk, and at prisons in Kalinin (Tver), Kharkiv, Moscow, and other Soviet cities. Still more executions took place at various locations in Belarus and Western Ukraine, based on special lists of Polish prisoners, prepared by the NKVD specifically for those regions. The modern investigations of the killings covered not only the massacre at Katyn forest, but also the other mass murders mentioned above. Polish organisations, such as the Katyn Committee and the Federation of Katyn Families, consider the victims murdered at the locations other than Katyn as part of the overall massacre.[1] The government of Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943. When the London-based Polish government-in-exile asked for an investigation by the International Red Cross, Stalin immediately severed diplomatic relations with it. The Soviet Union claimed the victims had been murdered by the Nazis, and continued to deny responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the perpetration of the killings by the NKVD, as well as the subsequent cover-up by the Soviet government.[1][2][3][a] An investigation conducted by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Soviet Union (1990--1991) and the Russian Federation (1991--2004), confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres. It was able to confirm the deaths of 1,803 Polish citizens but refused to classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. The investigation was closed on grounds that the perpetrators of the massacre were already dead, and since the Russian government would not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, formal posthumous rehabilitation was ruled out.[4] The human rights society Memorial issued a statement which declared "this termination of investigation is inadmissible" and that their confirmation of only 1,803 people killed "requires explanation because it is common knowledge that more than 14,500 prisoners were killed".[5] In November 2010, the Russian State Duma approved a declaration blaming Stalin and other Soviet officials for having personally ordered the massacre Without Knowledge Of Self And Past, One Is Forced To Always Relive The Past. WAKE UP. -
9:57Katyn Forest massacre 1 english
Katyn Forest massacre 1 english -
3:11United States covered up Katyn massacre
United States covered up Katyn massacreUnited States covered up Katyn massacre
Newly declassified U.S. army documents reveal that two American POWs sent secret coded messages to Army intelligence after their 1943 visit to Katyn, pointing to Soviet guilt for the 1940 massacre. After witnessing rows of corpses in the Katyn forest, on the western edge of Russia, the American POWs told Washington they believed the Nazi claims that Soviets had carried out the killings of 22,000 Polish officers. Having seen the advanced state of decay of the bodies, the POWs concluded that the killings must have been carried out by the Soviets rather than the Nazis who had only recently invaded the area surrounding the Katyn forest. The documents shed further light on decades of suppression of Soviet guilt within the U.S. government which began during WWII when the blame for the massacre was being pointed at Nazi Germany. The long-held suspicion is that President Franklin Roosevelt didn't want to anger Josef Stalin, an ally whom the Americans were counting on to defeat Germany and Japan. The testimony about the infamous massacre of Polish officers might have lessened the tragic fate that befell Poland under the Soviets, some scholars believe. Documents released Monday lend weight to the belief that suppression within the highest levels of the U.S. government helped cover up Soviet guilt in the killing of some 22,000 Polish officers and other prisoners in the Katyn forest and other locations in 1940. The evidence is among about 1,000 pages of newly declassified documents that the United States National Archives is releasing Monday and putting online. The most dramatic revelation so far is the evidence of the secret codes sent by the two American POWs — something historians were unaware of and which adds to evidence that the Roosevelt administration knew of the Soviet atrocity relatively early on. Cover up: Secret codes sent by the two American POWs about the massacre¿ something historians were unaware of - adds to evidence that the Roosevelt administration knew of the Soviet atrocity relatively early on The declassified documents also show the United States maintaining that it couldn't conclusively determine guilt until a Russian admission in 1990 — a statement that looks improbable given the huge body of evidence of Soviet guilt that had already emerged decades earlier. Historians say the new material helps to flesh out the story of what the U.S. knew and when. The Soviet secret police killed the 22,000 Poles with shots to the back of the head. Their aim was to eliminate a military and intellectual elite that would have put up stiff resistance to Soviet control. The men were among Poland's most accomplished — officers and reserve officers who in their civilian lives worked as doctors, lawyers, teachers, or as other professionals. Their loss has proven an enduring wound to the Polish nation. In the early years after the war, outrage by some American officials over the concealment inspired the creation of a special U.S. Congressional committee to investigate Katyn. In a final report released in 1952, the committee declared there was no doubt of Soviet guilt, and called the massacre 'one of the most barbarous international crimes in world history.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2201226/Declassified-documents-prove-U-S-DID-help-cover-1940-Katyn-massacre-Soviets-slaughtered-22-000-Polish-officers.html#ixzz27MFl2MTS -
9:43Katyn Forest Massacre by NKVD Communist Zionists english subtitles 360p
Katyn Forest Massacre by NKVD Communist Zionists english subtitles 360pKatyn Forest Massacre by NKVD Communist Zionists english subtitles 360p
-
14:35KATYN: Slaughter and Silence Rare Documentary True Story PT1/4
KATYN: Slaughter and Silence Rare Documentary True Story PT1/4KATYN: Slaughter and Silence Rare Documentary True Story PT1/4
Taken from a rare VHS ive owned since the early 90's.This is part 1 of 4. Check my channel for the rest of the parts. The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, 'Katyń crime'; Russian: Катынский расстрел), was a mass murder[1] of Polish nationals carried out by the Soviet secret police NKVD in April--May 1940. It was based on Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was then approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin.[2][3] The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, the most commonly cited number being 21,768.[4] The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkov prisons and elsewhere.[5] About 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, the rest being Polish doctors, professors, lawmakers, police officers, and other public servants arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests."[4] Since Poland's conscription system required every unexempted university graduate to become a reserve officer,[6] the NKVD was able to round up much of the Polish intelligentsia, and the Russian, Ukrainian, Tatar, Jewish, Georgian,[7] and Belarusian intelligentsia of Polish citizenship.[8] The term "Katyn massacre" originally referred specifically to the massacre at Katyn Forest, near the villages of Katyn and Gnezdovo (ca. 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Smolensk, Russia), of Polish military officers in the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp. This was the largest of several roughly simultaneous executions of prisoners of war; the others included executions at the geographically distant Starobelsk and Ostashkov camps,[9] and the executions of political prisoners from West Belarus and West Ukraine,[10] shot at Katyn Forest, at the NKVD headquarters in Smolensk, at a Smolensk slaughterhouse,[2] and at prisons in Kalinin (Tver), Kharkov, Moscow, and other Soviet cities.[4] The Belorussian and Ukrainian Katyn Lists are NKVD lists of names of Polish prisoners to be murdered at various locations in Belarus and Western Ukraine.[4] The modern Polish investigation of the Katyn massacre covered not only the massacre at Katyn forest, but also the other mass murders mentioned above. There are Polish organisations such as the Katyn Committee and the Federation of Katyn Families, which again are inclusive of victims of the various mass murders at the various locations.[4] Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943.[11] 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 responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the perpetration of the killings by the NKVD,[4][12][13] as well as the subsequent cover-up.[14] An investigation conducted by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Soviet Union (1990--1991) and the Russian Federation (1991--2004), has confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres. It was able to confirm the deaths of 1,803 Polish citizens but refused to classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. The investigation was closed on grounds that the perpetrators of the massacre were already dead, and since the Russian government would not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, formal posthumous rehabilitation was ruled out.[15] The human rights society Memorial issued a statement which declared "this termination of investigation is inadmissible" and that their confirmation of only 1,803 people killed "requires explanation because it is common knowledge that more than 14,500 prisoners were killed."[16] In November 2010, the Russian State Duma approved a declaration blaming Stalin and other Soviet officials for having personally ordered the massacre.[17] -
10:28Katyn Forest Massacre - Execution of Polish Officers by the Soviet NKVD in 1940_WWII Documentary
Katyn Forest Massacre - Execution of Polish Officers by the Soviet NKVD in 1940_WWII DocumentaryKatyn Forest Massacre - Execution of Polish Officers by the Soviet NKVD in 1940_WWII Documentary
►My channel: http://youtube.com/TheBestFilmArchives ►SUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/TheBestFilmArchives?sub_confirmation=1 ►Google+: http://plus.google.com/+TheBestFilmArchives ►Facebook: http://facebook.com/TheBestFilmArchives ►Twitter: http://twitter.com/BestFilmArch This film explores the Katyn Forest massacre of World War II. The original title of this video is: "Katyn (1973)". About the massacre The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, 'Katyń crime'; Russian: Катынский расстрел Katynskij ra'sstrel 'Katyn shooting'), was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, in April and May 1940. The massacre was prompted by Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, with 21,768 being a lower bound. The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere. Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers taken prisonerduring the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, with the rest being Polish intelligentsia arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests." The term "Katyn massacre" originally referred specifically to the massacre at Katyn Forest, near the villages of Katyn and Gnezdovo (approximately 19 kilometers/12 miles west of Smolensk, Russia), of Polish military officers in the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp. This was the largest of several simultaneous executions of prisoners of war. Other executions occurred at the geographically distant Starobelsk and Ostashkov camps, at the NKVD headquarters in Smolensk, and at prisons in Kalinin (Tver), Kharkiv, Moscow, and other Soviet cities. Still more executions took place at various locations in Belarus and Western Ukraine, based on special lists of Polish prisoners, prepared by the NKVD specifically for those regions. The modern Polish investigation of the killings covered not only the massacre at Katyn forest, but also the other mass murders mentioned above. Polish organisations, such as theKatyn Committee and the Federation of Katyn Families, consider the victims murdered at the locations other than Katyn as part of the overall massacre. The government of Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943. When the London-based Polish government-in-exile asked for an investigation by the International Red Cross, Stalin immediately severed diplomatic relations with it. The Soviet Union claimed the victims had been murdered by the Nazis, and continued to deny responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the perpetration of the killings by the NKVD, as well as the subsequent cover-up. An investigation conducted by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Soviet Union (1990--1991) and the Russian Federation (1991--2004), has confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres. It was able to confirm the deaths of 1,803 Polish citizens but refused to classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. The investigation was closed on grounds that the perpetrators of the massacre were already dead, and since the Russian government would not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, formal posthumous rehabilitation was ruled out. The human rights society Memorial issued a statement which declared "this termination of investigation is inadmissible" and that their confirmation of only 1,803 people killed "requires explanation because it is common knowledge that more than 14,500 prisoners were killed." In November 2010, the Russian State Duma approved a declaration blaming Stalin and other Soviet officials for having personally ordered the massacre. The fate of the Polish prisoners was raised soon after the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. The Polish government-in-exile and the Soviet government signed the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement which announced the willingness of both to fight together against Nazi Germany and for a Polish army to be formed on Soviet territory. The Polish general Władysław Anders began organizing this army, and soon he requested information about the Polish officers who were missing. During a personal meeting, Stalin assured him and Władysław Sikorski, the Polish Prime Minister, that all the Poles were freed, and that not all could be accounted because the Soviets "lost track" of them in Manchuria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre Katyn (1973) -
3:20Truth Is Out: Katyn massacre carried out on Stalin's direct orders
Truth Is Out: Katyn massacre carried out on Stalin's direct ordersTruth Is Out: Katyn massacre carried out on Stalin's direct orders
Joseph Stalin was responsible for the mass killing of Polish prisoners in Western Russia in 1940 - Russia's parliament accepted the Soviet leader ordered the Katyn massacre that has soured relations between Moscow and Warsaw for years. RT on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RTnews RT on Twitter: http://twitter.com/RT_com -
10:38Katyn forest massacre
Katyn forest massacre
- 7.65 mm
- Abwehr
- Academy Award
- Aleksander Gieysztor
- Aleksandr Shelepin
- Alexander Savenkov
- Alexandre Chkheidze
- Aliceanna Street
- Allen Paul
- Alojzy Wir-Konas
- American Samoa
- Anastas Mikoyan
- Andrzej Panufnik
- Andrzej Wajda
- Anti-Comintern Pact
- Anti-Stalinist left
- Armia Krajowa
- Army Group Center
- Associated Press
- Baligród massacre
- Balkans
- Baltic Way
- Baltimore
- Barbara Polak
- Basis Nord
- Batumi Stalin Museum
- BBC
- BBC News
- Belgium
- Benjamin B. Fischer
- Berlin Radio
- Besarion Jughashvili
- Boris Yeltsin
- British government
- Bronislaw Komorowski
- Bulgaria
- Byelorussian SSR
- Bykivnia
- Cannock Chase
- Censorship
- CIA
- Clayton Bissell
- Cold War
- Communist Poland
- Croatia
- Częstochowa massacre
- Dalstroy
- De-Stalinization
- Decossackization
- Democide
- Denmark
- Detroit
- Dmitrii Tokarev
- Dmitry Medvedev
- Doctors' plot
- Dominopol
- Donald B. Stewart
- Donald Tusk
- Dušan Makavejev
- Dziennik Ustaw
- Eastern bloc
- Eastern Bloc
- Ekaterina Svanidze
- Elmer Davis
- Emmy Award
- Empire of Japan
- Enigma (2001 film)
- Enigma (novel)
- Era of Stagnation
- Europe A History
- Executioner
- Ferdynand Goetel
- Fernand de Brinon
- File Katyn.ogv
- Finland
- Flying University
- Foreign Affairs
- France
- Franciszek Sikorski
- Frantisek Hajek
- Gazeta Wyborcza
- Gendarmerie
- George Earle
- George Marshall
- Georgian Affair
- Gerhard Weinberg
- Gestapo
- Glinciszki massacre
- Gnezdovo
- Great Purge
- Gryazovets
- Guardian Unlimited
- Gulag
- Gunnersbury Cemetery
- Henryk Minkiewicz
- History News Network
- Holodomor
- Hucisko Oleskie
- Hudson River
- Hungary
- Huta Stepańska
- Ian Traynor
- Inner Harbor East
- Intelligence agent
- Intelligentsia
- Intelligenzaktion
- Internet Archive
- Iona Nikitchenko
- Iron Curtain
- Italy
- Ivan Serov
- Jacek Kaczmarski
- James R. Benn
- Jan Józef Lipski
- Janina Lewandowska
- Janowa Dolina
- Janusz K. Zawodny
- Jedwabne pogrom
- Jewish Bolshevism
- Johannesburg
- John F. Melby
- John H. Van Vliet
- Joseph Goebbels
- Joseph Stalin
- Jukhnovo
- Józef Czapski
- Józef Mackiewicz
- Karpus Zbigniew
- Katowice
- Katyn (film)
- Katyn Committee
- Katyn massacre
- Katyn war cemetery
- Katyń (film)
- Katyń massacre
- Katyń Memorial
- Ketevan Geladze
- Kharkiv
- Khatyn
- Khatyn massacre
- Khrushchev Thaw
- Kim Philby
- Kisielin massacre
- Kliment Voroshilov
- Kolyma
- Komsomolskaya Pravda
- Koniuchy massacre
- Konstantin Kuzakov
- Konstanty Plisowski
- Korean War
- Korosciatyn massacre
- Kozelshchyna
- Kozelsk
- Kurapaty
- Kurdybań Warkowicki
- Kuty (Kąty) defence
- Kysorychi
- Laurence Rees
- Lavrentiy Beria
- Lech Kaczyński
- Lech Wałęsa
- Lenin's Testament
- Leningrad Affair
- Leon Billewicz
- Leonard Skierski
- Lviv
- Lysenkoism
- Manchuria
- Maria Kaczyńska
- Marko Antonov Markov
- Maryland
- Mass (liturgy)
- Massacre of Ostrówki
- May Day
- Mednoye
- Memorial (society)
- Michael Balfour
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Mikhail Meltiukhov
- Military court
- Mingrelian Affair
- Moscow Trials
- Muczne massacre
- Nadezhda Alliluyeva
- Nagant M1895
- Naliboki massacre
- Nazi Germany
- Nazi propaganda
- Nazino affair
- Neo-Stalinism
- Netherlands
- New York Times
- Nezavisimaya Gazeta
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Nikolai Burdenko
- Niles, Illinois
- NKVD
- Nuremberg trials
- Ochota massacre
- Ontario
- Operation Barbarossa
- Operation North
- Operation Priboi
- Optina Monastery
- Oranki
- Ostashkov
- Palikrowy massacre
- Parośla I massacre
- Pavlivka
- Pawiak
- Pańska Dolina
- PBS
- Perestroika
- Phoney War
- Piatykhatky, Kharkiv
- Pidkamin massacre
- Piotr Skuratowicz
- Piłsudski Square
- Poland
- Polish Jews
- Polish language
- Polish October
- Polish Press Agency
- Polish Secret State
- Polish-American
- Ponary massacre
- Portal Communism
- Portal Poland
- Portal Soviet Union
- Portal World War II
- Porucznik
- Pospelov Commission
- Potsdam Conference
- Powązki cemetery
- Przebraże Defence
- Przyszowice massacre
- Putyvl
- Racławice Panorama
- Radio Free Europe
- Ray J. Madden
- Red Army
- RIA Novosti
- Roger Ebert
- Roman Rudenko
- Romania
- Ron Jeffery
- Rossiyskaya Gazeta
- Rudolf Prich
- Rudolf von Gersdorff
- Russia Today
- Russian Federation
- Russian language
- Ryutin Affair
- Saint Petersburg
- Sejm
- Seliger Lake
- Sergey Kirov
- Shvernik Commission
- Slovak language
- Slovakia
- Smolensk
- Socialist realism
- South Africa
- Soviet Census (1937)
- Soviet deportations
- Soviet Union
- Soviet war crimes
- Spanish Civil War
- Staffordshire
- Stalin Epigram
- Stalin Note
- Stalin Peace Prize
- Stalin Prize
- Stalin's ten blows
- Stalinism
- Stanisław Haller
- Starobilsk
- State Duma
- Steven Fischer
- Stolbnyi Island
- Sung poetry
- Svetlana Alliluyeva
- Sweden
- Sweet Movie
- Tadeusz Tchórzewski
- Tehran Conference
- The Economist
- The Moscow Times
- The Russian Review
- Time (magazine)
- Tito–Stalin split
- Toronto
- Trade union
- Tver
- U.S. Congress
- UK
- Vasili Blokhin
- Vasily Dzhugashvili
- Vasily Zarubin
- Velykyi Khodachkiv
- Vinnytsia massacre
- Virtuti Militari
- Vladimir Putin
- Vologda
- Vsevolod Merkulov
- Vyacheslav Molotov
- W. Averell Harriman
- W.E.B. Griffin
- Walther PPK
- Wanda Wasilewska
- Warsaw
- Warsaw Voice
- Wawer massacre
- Wayback Machine
- Wehrmacht
- Western civilization
- Wikisource
- Winston Churchill
- Winter War
- Wola massacre
- Wrocław
- Władysław Anders
- Władysław Sikorski
- Xawery Czernicki
- Yakov Dzhugashvili
- Yalta Conference
- Yanks for Stalin
- Yuzhe
- Zaduszki
- Zakopane
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Zdzisław Peszkowski
- Żeniówka
-
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... -
The Katyn massacre, a truth revealed
The Katyn massacre of "Polish nationalists and counter-revolutionaries" had been blamed on the Germans until Boris Yeltsin released a secret memo from Soviet archives dated 5 March 1940 in which Stalin authorised the execution of 25 700 Poles from Kozelsk, Ostashkov and Starobels camps, and from certain prisons of Western Ukraine and Belarus. In this documentary, Polish and Russian historians, investigators and film makers reconstruct the Katyn wood massacre from the available evidence. -
KATYN MASSACRE execution of Polish officers
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre was a mass murder of thousands of Polish military officers, policemen, intellectuals and civilian prisoners of war by Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps dated March 5 1940 Hey Western Europe remember this ? Or you love red flags,lenin,stalin .Commie murder in world 100mln people and now ......more idiots speaking "We love reds" ,"We love coomie" This is murder. -
Katyn Massacre
Película: Katyn Escena de los fusilamientos en los Bosques de Katyn. -
(WARNING-GRAPHIC) Katyn Forest Massacre - Soviet Union - NKVD (SECRET POLICE) Joseph Stalin.
-Picstory (History) -For Educational Purposes Only ( I Own No Rights To These Photos/Music) -Collection Of Photos Taken Prior/Therefore After Events Have Taken Place The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, 'Katyń crime'; Russian: Катынский расстрел Katynskij ra'sstrel 'Katyn shooting'), was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, in April and May 1940. The massacre was prompted by NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all captive members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin. The number of victims is estima... -
-
United States covered up Katyn massacre
Newly declassified U.S. army documents reveal that two American POWs sent secret coded messages to Army intelligence after their 1943 visit to Katyn, pointing to Soviet guilt for the 1940 massacre. After witnessing rows of corpses in the Katyn forest, on the western edge of Russia, the American POWs told Washington they believed the Nazi claims that Soviets had carried out the killings of 22,000 Polish officers. Having seen the advanced state of decay of the bodies, the POWs concluded that the killings must have been carried out by the Soviets rather than the Nazis who had only recently invaded the area surrounding the Katyn forest. The documents shed further light on decades of suppression of Soviet guilt within the U.S. government which began during WWII when the blame for the ... -
Katyn Forest Massacre by NKVD Communist Zionists english subtitles 360p
-
KATYN: Slaughter and Silence Rare Documentary True Story PT1/4
Taken from a rare VHS ive owned since the early 90's.This is part 1 of 4. Check my channel for the rest of the parts. The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, 'Katyń crime'; Russian: Катынский расстрел), was a mass murder[1] of Polish nationals carried out by the Soviet secret police NKVD in April--May 1940. It was based on Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was then approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin.[2][3] The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, the most commonly cited number being 21,768.[4] The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkov prisons a... -
Katyn Forest Massacre - Execution of Polish Officers by the Soviet NKVD in 1940_WWII Documentary
►My channel: http://youtube.com/TheBestFilmArchives ►SUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/TheBestFilmArchives?sub_confirmation=1 ►Google+: http://plus.google.com/+TheBestFilmArchives ►Facebook: http://facebook.com/TheBestFilmArchives ►Twitter: http://twitter.com/BestFilmArch This film explores the Katyn Forest massacre of World War II. The original title of this video is: "Katyn (1973)". About the massacre The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, 'Katyń crime'; Russian: Катынский расстрел Katynskij ra'sstrel 'Katyn shooting'), was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, in April and May 1940. The massacre was prompted by Lavrentiy Beria... -
Truth Is Out: Katyn massacre carried out on Stalin's direct orders
Joseph Stalin was responsible for the mass killing of Polish prisoners in Western Russia in 1940 - Russia's parliament accepted the Soviet leader ordered the Katyn massacre that has soured relations between Moscow and Warsaw for years. RT on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RTnews RT on Twitter: http://twitter.com/RT_com -
21,768 murdered in Katyn massacre by the Soviet NKVD - April 1940 - Joseph Stalin Lavrentiy Beria
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:12
- Updated: 13 Mar 2010
- views: 188060
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.
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
- views: 188060
The Katyn massacre, a truth revealed
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 26:08
- Updated: 12 Dec 2012
- views: 3987
The Katyn massacre of "Polish nationalists and counter-revolutionaries" had been blamed on the Germans until Boris Yeltsin released a secret memo from Soviet ar...
The Katyn massacre of "Polish nationalists and counter-revolutionaries" had been blamed on the Germans until Boris Yeltsin released a secret memo from Soviet archives dated 5 March 1940 in which Stalin authorised the execution of 25 700 Poles from Kozelsk, Ostashkov and Starobels camps, and from certain prisons of Western Ukraine and Belarus. In this documentary, Polish and Russian historians, investigators and film makers reconstruct the Katyn wood massacre from the available evidence.
wn.com/The Katyn Massacre, A Truth Revealed
The Katyn massacre of "Polish nationalists and counter-revolutionaries" had been blamed on the Germans until Boris Yeltsin released a secret memo from Soviet archives dated 5 March 1940 in which Stalin authorised the execution of 25 700 Poles from Kozelsk, Ostashkov and Starobels camps, and from certain prisons of Western Ukraine and Belarus. In this documentary, Polish and Russian historians, investigators and film makers reconstruct the Katyn wood massacre from the available evidence.
- published: 12 Dec 2012
- views: 3987
KATYN MASSACRE execution of Polish officers
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:37
- Updated: 30 Mar 2009
- views: 273513
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre was a mass murder of thousands of Polish military officers, policemen, intellectuals and civilian pr...
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre was a mass murder of thousands of Polish military officers, policemen, intellectuals and civilian prisoners of war by Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps dated March 5 1940
Hey Western Europe remember this ? Or you love red flags,lenin,stalin .Commie murder in world 100mln people and now ......more idiots speaking "We love reds" ,"We love coomie" This is murder.
wn.com/Katyn Massacre Execution Of Polish Officers
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre was a mass murder of thousands of Polish military officers, policemen, intellectuals and civilian prisoners of war by Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps dated March 5 1940
Hey Western Europe remember this ? Or you love red flags,lenin,stalin .Commie murder in world 100mln people and now ......more idiots speaking "We love reds" ,"We love coomie" This is murder.
- published: 30 Mar 2009
- views: 273513
Katyn Massacre
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:15
- Updated: 21 Mar 2011
- views: 17384
Película: Katyn
Escena de los fusilamientos en los Bosques de Katyn.
Película: Katyn
Escena de los fusilamientos en los Bosques de Katyn.
wn.com/Katyn Massacre
Película: Katyn
Escena de los fusilamientos en los Bosques de Katyn.
- published: 21 Mar 2011
- views: 17384
(WARNING-GRAPHIC) Katyn Forest Massacre - Soviet Union - NKVD (SECRET POLICE) Joseph Stalin.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 11:46
- Updated: 27 Oct 2013
- views: 26403
-Picstory (History)
-For Educational Purposes Only ( I Own No Rights To These Photos/Music)
-Collection Of Photos Taken Prior/Therefore After Events Have Taken...
-Picstory (History)
-For Educational Purposes Only ( I Own No Rights To These Photos/Music)
-Collection Of Photos Taken Prior/Therefore After Events Have Taken Place
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, 'Katyń crime'; Russian: Катынский расстрел Katynskij ra'sstrel 'Katyn shooting'), was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, in April and May 1940. The massacre was prompted by NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all captive members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, with 21,768 being a lower limit.[1] The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere. Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, with the rest being Polish intelligentsia arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests".[1]
The term "Katyn massacre" originally referred specifically to the massacre at Katyn Forest, near the villages of Katyn and Gnezdovo (approximately 19 kilometers [12 miles] west of Smolensk, Russia), of Polish military officers in the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp. This was the largest of several simultaneous executions of prisoners of war. Other executions occurred at the geographically distant Starobelsk and Ostashkov camps, at the NKVD headquarters in Smolensk, and at prisons in Kalinin (Tver), Kharkiv, Moscow, and other Soviet cities. Still more executions took place at various locations in Belarus and Western Ukraine, based on special lists of Polish prisoners, prepared by the NKVD specifically for those regions. The modern investigations of the killings covered not only the massacre at Katyn forest, but also the other mass murders mentioned above. Polish organisations, such as the Katyn Committee and the Federation of Katyn Families, consider the victims murdered at the locations other than Katyn as part of the overall massacre.[1]
The government of Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943. When the London-based Polish government-in-exile asked for an investigation by the International Red Cross, Stalin immediately severed diplomatic relations with it. The Soviet Union claimed the victims had been murdered by the Nazis, and continued to deny responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the perpetration of the killings by the NKVD, as well as the subsequent cover-up by the Soviet government.[1][2][3][a]
An investigation conducted by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Soviet Union (1990--1991) and the Russian Federation (1991--2004), confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres. It was able to confirm the deaths of 1,803 Polish citizens but refused to classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. The investigation was closed on grounds that the perpetrators of the massacre were already dead, and since the Russian government would not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, formal posthumous rehabilitation was ruled out.[4] The human rights society Memorial issued a statement which declared "this termination of investigation is inadmissible" and that their confirmation of only 1,803 people killed "requires explanation because it is common knowledge that more than 14,500 prisoners were killed".[5] In November 2010, the Russian State Duma approved a declaration blaming Stalin and other Soviet officials for having personally ordered the massacre
Without Knowledge Of Self And Past, One Is Forced To Always Relive The Past.
WAKE UP.
wn.com/(Warning Graphic) Katyn Forest Massacre Soviet Union Nkvd (Secret Police) Joseph Stalin.
-Picstory (History)
-For Educational Purposes Only ( I Own No Rights To These Photos/Music)
-Collection Of Photos Taken Prior/Therefore After Events Have Taken Place
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, 'Katyń crime'; Russian: Катынский расстрел Katynskij ra'sstrel 'Katyn shooting'), was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, in April and May 1940. The massacre was prompted by NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all captive members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, with 21,768 being a lower limit.[1] The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere. Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, with the rest being Polish intelligentsia arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests".[1]
The term "Katyn massacre" originally referred specifically to the massacre at Katyn Forest, near the villages of Katyn and Gnezdovo (approximately 19 kilometers [12 miles] west of Smolensk, Russia), of Polish military officers in the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp. This was the largest of several simultaneous executions of prisoners of war. Other executions occurred at the geographically distant Starobelsk and Ostashkov camps, at the NKVD headquarters in Smolensk, and at prisons in Kalinin (Tver), Kharkiv, Moscow, and other Soviet cities. Still more executions took place at various locations in Belarus and Western Ukraine, based on special lists of Polish prisoners, prepared by the NKVD specifically for those regions. The modern investigations of the killings covered not only the massacre at Katyn forest, but also the other mass murders mentioned above. Polish organisations, such as the Katyn Committee and the Federation of Katyn Families, consider the victims murdered at the locations other than Katyn as part of the overall massacre.[1]
The government of Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943. When the London-based Polish government-in-exile asked for an investigation by the International Red Cross, Stalin immediately severed diplomatic relations with it. The Soviet Union claimed the victims had been murdered by the Nazis, and continued to deny responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the perpetration of the killings by the NKVD, as well as the subsequent cover-up by the Soviet government.[1][2][3][a]
An investigation conducted by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Soviet Union (1990--1991) and the Russian Federation (1991--2004), confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres. It was able to confirm the deaths of 1,803 Polish citizens but refused to classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. The investigation was closed on grounds that the perpetrators of the massacre were already dead, and since the Russian government would not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, formal posthumous rehabilitation was ruled out.[4] The human rights society Memorial issued a statement which declared "this termination of investigation is inadmissible" and that their confirmation of only 1,803 people killed "requires explanation because it is common knowledge that more than 14,500 prisoners were killed".[5] In November 2010, the Russian State Duma approved a declaration blaming Stalin and other Soviet officials for having personally ordered the massacre
Without Knowledge Of Self And Past, One Is Forced To Always Relive The Past.
WAKE UP.
- published: 27 Oct 2013
- views: 26403
Katyn Forest massacre 1 english
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:57
- Updated: 03 Sep 2007
- views: 72101
United States covered up Katyn massacre
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:11
- Updated: 24 Sep 2012
- views: 2614
Newly declassified U.S. army documents reveal that two American POWs sent secret coded messages to Army intelligence after their 1943 visit to Katyn, pointing t...
Newly declassified U.S. army documents reveal that two American POWs sent secret coded messages to Army intelligence after their 1943 visit to Katyn, pointing to Soviet guilt for the 1940 massacre.
After witnessing rows of corpses in the Katyn forest, on the western edge of Russia, the American POWs told Washington they believed the Nazi claims that Soviets had carried out the killings of 22,000 Polish officers.
Having seen the advanced state of decay of the bodies, the POWs concluded that the killings must have been carried out by the Soviets rather than the Nazis who had only recently invaded the area surrounding the Katyn forest.
The documents shed further light on decades of suppression of Soviet guilt within the U.S. government which began during WWII when the blame for the massacre was being pointed at Nazi Germany. The long-held suspicion is that President Franklin Roosevelt didn't want to anger Josef Stalin, an ally whom the Americans were counting on to defeat Germany and Japan.
The testimony about the infamous massacre of Polish officers might have lessened the tragic fate that befell Poland under the Soviets, some scholars believe.
Documents released Monday lend weight to the belief that suppression within the highest levels of the U.S. government helped cover up Soviet guilt in the killing of some 22,000 Polish officers and other prisoners in the Katyn forest and other locations in 1940.
The evidence is among about 1,000 pages of newly declassified documents that the United States National Archives is releasing Monday and putting online.
The most dramatic revelation so far is the evidence of the secret codes sent by the two American POWs — something historians were unaware of and which adds to evidence that the Roosevelt administration knew of the Soviet atrocity relatively early on.
Cover up: Secret codes sent by the two American POWs about the massacre¿ something historians were unaware of - adds to evidence that the Roosevelt administration knew of the Soviet atrocity relatively early on
The declassified documents also show the United States maintaining that it couldn't conclusively determine guilt until a Russian admission in 1990 — a statement that looks improbable given the huge body of evidence of Soviet guilt that had already emerged decades earlier. Historians say the new material helps to flesh out the story of what the U.S. knew and when.
The Soviet secret police killed the 22,000 Poles with shots to the back of the head. Their aim was to eliminate a military and intellectual elite that would have put up stiff resistance to Soviet control. The men were among Poland's most accomplished — officers and reserve officers who in their civilian lives worked as doctors, lawyers, teachers, or as other professionals. Their loss has proven an enduring wound to the Polish nation.
In the early years after the war, outrage by some American officials over the concealment inspired the creation of a special U.S. Congressional committee to investigate Katyn.
In a final report released in 1952, the committee declared there was no doubt of Soviet guilt, and called the massacre 'one of the most barbarous international crimes in world history.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2201226/Declassified-documents-prove-U-S-DID-help-cover-1940-Katyn-massacre-Soviets-slaughtered-22-000-Polish-officers.html#ixzz27MFl2MTS
wn.com/United States Covered Up Katyn Massacre
Newly declassified U.S. army documents reveal that two American POWs sent secret coded messages to Army intelligence after their 1943 visit to Katyn, pointing to Soviet guilt for the 1940 massacre.
After witnessing rows of corpses in the Katyn forest, on the western edge of Russia, the American POWs told Washington they believed the Nazi claims that Soviets had carried out the killings of 22,000 Polish officers.
Having seen the advanced state of decay of the bodies, the POWs concluded that the killings must have been carried out by the Soviets rather than the Nazis who had only recently invaded the area surrounding the Katyn forest.
The documents shed further light on decades of suppression of Soviet guilt within the U.S. government which began during WWII when the blame for the massacre was being pointed at Nazi Germany. The long-held suspicion is that President Franklin Roosevelt didn't want to anger Josef Stalin, an ally whom the Americans were counting on to defeat Germany and Japan.
The testimony about the infamous massacre of Polish officers might have lessened the tragic fate that befell Poland under the Soviets, some scholars believe.
Documents released Monday lend weight to the belief that suppression within the highest levels of the U.S. government helped cover up Soviet guilt in the killing of some 22,000 Polish officers and other prisoners in the Katyn forest and other locations in 1940.
The evidence is among about 1,000 pages of newly declassified documents that the United States National Archives is releasing Monday and putting online.
The most dramatic revelation so far is the evidence of the secret codes sent by the two American POWs — something historians were unaware of and which adds to evidence that the Roosevelt administration knew of the Soviet atrocity relatively early on.
Cover up: Secret codes sent by the two American POWs about the massacre¿ something historians were unaware of - adds to evidence that the Roosevelt administration knew of the Soviet atrocity relatively early on
The declassified documents also show the United States maintaining that it couldn't conclusively determine guilt until a Russian admission in 1990 — a statement that looks improbable given the huge body of evidence of Soviet guilt that had already emerged decades earlier. Historians say the new material helps to flesh out the story of what the U.S. knew and when.
The Soviet secret police killed the 22,000 Poles with shots to the back of the head. Their aim was to eliminate a military and intellectual elite that would have put up stiff resistance to Soviet control. The men were among Poland's most accomplished — officers and reserve officers who in their civilian lives worked as doctors, lawyers, teachers, or as other professionals. Their loss has proven an enduring wound to the Polish nation.
In the early years after the war, outrage by some American officials over the concealment inspired the creation of a special U.S. Congressional committee to investigate Katyn.
In a final report released in 1952, the committee declared there was no doubt of Soviet guilt, and called the massacre 'one of the most barbarous international crimes in world history.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2201226/Declassified-documents-prove-U-S-DID-help-cover-1940-Katyn-massacre-Soviets-slaughtered-22-000-Polish-officers.html#ixzz27MFl2MTS
- published: 24 Sep 2012
- views: 2614
Katyn Forest Massacre by NKVD Communist Zionists english subtitles 360p
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:43
- Updated: 30 Jun 2015
- views: 562
- published: 30 Jun 2015
- views: 562
KATYN: Slaughter and Silence Rare Documentary True Story PT1/4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:35
- Updated: 20 Feb 2011
- views: 9829
Taken from a rare VHS ive owned since the early 90's.This is part 1 of 4. Check my channel for the rest of the parts.
The Katyn massacre, also known as the K...
Taken from a rare VHS ive owned since the early 90's.This is part 1 of 4. Check my channel for the rest of the parts.
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, 'Katyń crime'; Russian: Катынский расстрел), was a mass murder[1] of Polish nationals carried out by the Soviet secret police NKVD in April--May 1940. It was based on Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was then approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin.[2][3] The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, the most commonly cited number being 21,768.[4] The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkov prisons and elsewhere.[5] About 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, the rest being Polish doctors, professors, lawmakers, police officers, and other public servants arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests."[4] Since Poland's conscription system required every unexempted university graduate to become a reserve officer,[6] the NKVD was able to round up much of the Polish intelligentsia, and the Russian, Ukrainian, Tatar, Jewish, Georgian,[7] and Belarusian intelligentsia of Polish citizenship.[8]
The term "Katyn massacre" originally referred specifically to the massacre at Katyn Forest, near the villages of Katyn and Gnezdovo (ca. 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Smolensk, Russia), of Polish military officers in the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp. This was the largest of several roughly simultaneous executions of prisoners of war; the others included executions at the geographically distant Starobelsk and Ostashkov camps,[9] and the executions of political prisoners from West Belarus and West Ukraine,[10] shot at Katyn Forest, at the NKVD headquarters in Smolensk, at a Smolensk slaughterhouse,[2] and at prisons in Kalinin (Tver), Kharkov, Moscow, and other Soviet cities.[4] The Belorussian and Ukrainian Katyn Lists are NKVD lists of names of Polish prisoners to be murdered at various locations in Belarus and Western Ukraine.[4] The modern Polish investigation of the Katyn massacre covered not only the massacre at Katyn forest, but also the other mass murders mentioned above. There are Polish organisations such as the Katyn Committee and the Federation of Katyn Families, which again are inclusive of victims of the various mass murders at the various locations.[4]
Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943.[11] 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 responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the perpetration of the killings by the NKVD,[4][12][13] as well as the subsequent cover-up.[14]
An investigation conducted by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Soviet Union (1990--1991) and the Russian Federation (1991--2004), has confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres. It was able to confirm the deaths of 1,803 Polish citizens but refused to classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. The investigation was closed on grounds that the perpetrators of the massacre were already dead, and since the Russian government would not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, formal posthumous rehabilitation was ruled out.[15] The human rights society Memorial issued a statement which declared "this termination of investigation is inadmissible" and that their confirmation of only 1,803 people killed "requires explanation because it is common knowledge that more than 14,500 prisoners were killed."[16]
In November 2010, the Russian State Duma approved a declaration blaming Stalin and other Soviet officials for having personally ordered the massacre.[17]
wn.com/Katyn Slaughter And Silence Rare Documentary True Story Pt1 4
Taken from a rare VHS ive owned since the early 90's.This is part 1 of 4. Check my channel for the rest of the parts.
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, 'Katyń crime'; Russian: Катынский расстрел), was a mass murder[1] of Polish nationals carried out by the Soviet secret police NKVD in April--May 1940. It was based on Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was then approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin.[2][3] The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, the most commonly cited number being 21,768.[4] The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkov prisons and elsewhere.[5] About 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, the rest being Polish doctors, professors, lawmakers, police officers, and other public servants arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests."[4] Since Poland's conscription system required every unexempted university graduate to become a reserve officer,[6] the NKVD was able to round up much of the Polish intelligentsia, and the Russian, Ukrainian, Tatar, Jewish, Georgian,[7] and Belarusian intelligentsia of Polish citizenship.[8]
The term "Katyn massacre" originally referred specifically to the massacre at Katyn Forest, near the villages of Katyn and Gnezdovo (ca. 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Smolensk, Russia), of Polish military officers in the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp. This was the largest of several roughly simultaneous executions of prisoners of war; the others included executions at the geographically distant Starobelsk and Ostashkov camps,[9] and the executions of political prisoners from West Belarus and West Ukraine,[10] shot at Katyn Forest, at the NKVD headquarters in Smolensk, at a Smolensk slaughterhouse,[2] and at prisons in Kalinin (Tver), Kharkov, Moscow, and other Soviet cities.[4] The Belorussian and Ukrainian Katyn Lists are NKVD lists of names of Polish prisoners to be murdered at various locations in Belarus and Western Ukraine.[4] The modern Polish investigation of the Katyn massacre covered not only the massacre at Katyn forest, but also the other mass murders mentioned above. There are Polish organisations such as the Katyn Committee and the Federation of Katyn Families, which again are inclusive of victims of the various mass murders at the various locations.[4]
Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943.[11] 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 responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the perpetration of the killings by the NKVD,[4][12][13] as well as the subsequent cover-up.[14]
An investigation conducted by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Soviet Union (1990--1991) and the Russian Federation (1991--2004), has confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres. It was able to confirm the deaths of 1,803 Polish citizens but refused to classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. The investigation was closed on grounds that the perpetrators of the massacre were already dead, and since the Russian government would not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, formal posthumous rehabilitation was ruled out.[15] The human rights society Memorial issued a statement which declared "this termination of investigation is inadmissible" and that their confirmation of only 1,803 people killed "requires explanation because it is common knowledge that more than 14,500 prisoners were killed."[16]
In November 2010, the Russian State Duma approved a declaration blaming Stalin and other Soviet officials for having personally ordered the massacre.[17]
- published: 20 Feb 2011
- views: 9829
Katyn Forest Massacre - Execution of Polish Officers by the Soviet NKVD in 1940_WWII Documentary
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:28
- Updated: 25 Mar 2013
- views: 10326
►My channel: http://youtube.com/TheBestFilmArchives
►SUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/TheBestFilmArchives?sub_confirmation=1
►Google+: http://plus.google.com/+...
►My channel: http://youtube.com/TheBestFilmArchives
►SUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/TheBestFilmArchives?sub_confirmation=1
►Google+: http://plus.google.com/+TheBestFilmArchives
►Facebook: http://facebook.com/TheBestFilmArchives
►Twitter: http://twitter.com/BestFilmArch
This film explores the Katyn Forest massacre of World War II.
The original title of this video is: "Katyn (1973)".
About the massacre
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, 'Katyń crime'; Russian: Катынский расстрел Katynskij ra'sstrel 'Katyn shooting'), was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, in April and May 1940. The massacre was prompted by Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, with 21,768 being a lower bound. The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere. Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers taken prisonerduring the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, with the rest being Polish intelligentsia arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests."
The term "Katyn massacre" originally referred specifically to the massacre at Katyn Forest, near the villages of Katyn and Gnezdovo (approximately 19 kilometers/12 miles west of Smolensk, Russia), of Polish military officers in the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp. This was the largest of several simultaneous executions of prisoners of war. Other executions occurred at the geographically distant Starobelsk and Ostashkov camps, at the NKVD headquarters in Smolensk, and at prisons in Kalinin (Tver), Kharkiv, Moscow, and other Soviet cities. Still more executions took place at various locations in Belarus and Western Ukraine, based on special lists of Polish prisoners, prepared by the NKVD specifically for those regions. The modern Polish investigation of the killings covered not only the massacre at Katyn forest, but also the other mass murders mentioned above. Polish organisations, such as theKatyn Committee and the Federation of Katyn Families, consider the victims murdered at the locations other than Katyn as part of the overall massacre.
The government of Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943. When the London-based Polish government-in-exile asked for an investigation by the International Red Cross, Stalin immediately severed diplomatic relations with it. The Soviet Union claimed the victims had been murdered by the Nazis, and continued to deny responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the perpetration of the killings by the NKVD, as well as the subsequent cover-up.
An investigation conducted by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Soviet Union (1990--1991) and the Russian Federation (1991--2004), has confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres. It was able to confirm the deaths of 1,803 Polish citizens but refused to classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. The investigation was closed on grounds that the perpetrators of the massacre were already dead, and since the Russian government would not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, formal posthumous rehabilitation was ruled out. The human rights society Memorial issued a statement which declared "this termination of investigation is inadmissible" and that their confirmation of only 1,803 people killed "requires explanation because it is common knowledge that more than 14,500 prisoners were killed." In November 2010, the Russian State Duma approved a declaration blaming Stalin and other Soviet officials for having personally ordered the massacre.
The fate of the Polish prisoners was raised soon after the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. The Polish government-in-exile and the Soviet government signed the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement which announced the willingness of both to fight together against Nazi Germany and for a Polish army to be formed on Soviet territory. The Polish general Władysław Anders began organizing this army, and soon he requested information about the Polish officers who were missing. During a personal meeting, Stalin assured him and Władysław Sikorski, the Polish Prime Minister, that all the Poles were freed, and that not all could be accounted because the Soviets "lost track" of them in Manchuria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
Katyn (1973)
wn.com/Katyn Forest Massacre Execution Of Polish Officers By The Soviet Nkvd In 1940 Wwii Documentary
►My channel: http://youtube.com/TheBestFilmArchives
►SUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/TheBestFilmArchives?sub_confirmation=1
►Google+: http://plus.google.com/+TheBestFilmArchives
►Facebook: http://facebook.com/TheBestFilmArchives
►Twitter: http://twitter.com/BestFilmArch
This film explores the Katyn Forest massacre of World War II.
The original title of this video is: "Katyn (1973)".
About the massacre
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński, 'Katyń crime'; Russian: Катынский расстрел Katynskij ra'sstrel 'Katyn shooting'), was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, in April and May 1940. The massacre was prompted by Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, with 21,768 being a lower bound. The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere. Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers taken prisonerduring the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, with the rest being Polish intelligentsia arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests."
The term "Katyn massacre" originally referred specifically to the massacre at Katyn Forest, near the villages of Katyn and Gnezdovo (approximately 19 kilometers/12 miles west of Smolensk, Russia), of Polish military officers in the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp. This was the largest of several simultaneous executions of prisoners of war. Other executions occurred at the geographically distant Starobelsk and Ostashkov camps, at the NKVD headquarters in Smolensk, and at prisons in Kalinin (Tver), Kharkiv, Moscow, and other Soviet cities. Still more executions took place at various locations in Belarus and Western Ukraine, based on special lists of Polish prisoners, prepared by the NKVD specifically for those regions. The modern Polish investigation of the killings covered not only the massacre at Katyn forest, but also the other mass murders mentioned above. Polish organisations, such as theKatyn Committee and the Federation of Katyn Families, consider the victims murdered at the locations other than Katyn as part of the overall massacre.
The government of Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943. When the London-based Polish government-in-exile asked for an investigation by the International Red Cross, Stalin immediately severed diplomatic relations with it. The Soviet Union claimed the victims had been murdered by the Nazis, and continued to deny responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the perpetration of the killings by the NKVD, as well as the subsequent cover-up.
An investigation conducted by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Soviet Union (1990--1991) and the Russian Federation (1991--2004), has confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres. It was able to confirm the deaths of 1,803 Polish citizens but refused to classify this action as a war crime or an act of genocide. The investigation was closed on grounds that the perpetrators of the massacre were already dead, and since the Russian government would not classify the dead as victims of Stalinist repression, formal posthumous rehabilitation was ruled out. The human rights society Memorial issued a statement which declared "this termination of investigation is inadmissible" and that their confirmation of only 1,803 people killed "requires explanation because it is common knowledge that more than 14,500 prisoners were killed." In November 2010, the Russian State Duma approved a declaration blaming Stalin and other Soviet officials for having personally ordered the massacre.
The fate of the Polish prisoners was raised soon after the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. The Polish government-in-exile and the Soviet government signed the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement which announced the willingness of both to fight together against Nazi Germany and for a Polish army to be formed on Soviet territory. The Polish general Władysław Anders began organizing this army, and soon he requested information about the Polish officers who were missing. During a personal meeting, Stalin assured him and Władysław Sikorski, the Polish Prime Minister, that all the Poles were freed, and that not all could be accounted because the Soviets "lost track" of them in Manchuria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
Katyn (1973)
- published: 25 Mar 2013
- views: 10326
Truth Is Out: Katyn massacre carried out on Stalin's direct orders
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 26 Nov 2010
- views: 28209
Joseph Stalin was responsible for the mass killing of Polish prisoners in Western Russia in 1940 - Russia's parliament accepted the Soviet leader ordered the Ka...
Joseph Stalin was responsible for the mass killing of Polish prisoners in Western Russia in 1940 - Russia's parliament accepted the Soviet leader ordered the Katyn massacre that has soured relations between Moscow and Warsaw for years.
RT on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RTnews
RT on Twitter: http://twitter.com/RT_com
wn.com/Truth Is Out Katyn Massacre Carried Out On Stalin's Direct Orders
Joseph Stalin was responsible for the mass killing of Polish prisoners in Western Russia in 1940 - Russia's parliament accepted the Soviet leader ordered the Katyn massacre that has soured relations between Moscow and Warsaw for years.
RT on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RTnews
RT on Twitter: http://twitter.com/RT_com
- published: 26 Nov 2010
- views: 28209
Katyn forest massacre
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:38
- Updated: 24 Apr 2007
- views: 161716
Horrifying Russian murder during WW 2. 25 700 Polish POW killed by Soviet NKVD following Stalin's order.
Horrifying Russian murder during WW 2. 25 700 Polish POW killed by Soviet NKVD following Stalin's order.
wn.com/Katyn Forest Massacre
close fullscreen
- Playlist
- Chat
close fullscreen
- Playlist
- Chat
9:12
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, 'K...
published: 13 Mar 2010
21,768 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 Beria
- Report rights infringement
- published: 13 Mar 2010
- views: 188060
26:08
The Katyn massacre, a truth revealed
The Katyn massacre of "Polish nationalists and counter-revolutionaries" had been blamed on...
published: 12 Dec 2012
The Katyn massacre, a truth revealed
The Katyn massacre, a truth revealed
- Report rights infringement
- published: 12 Dec 2012
- views: 3987
4:37
KATYN MASSACRE execution of Polish officers
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre was a mass murder of thousands...
published: 30 Mar 2009
KATYN MASSACRE execution of Polish officers
KATYN MASSACRE execution of Polish officers
- Report rights infringement
- published: 30 Mar 2009
- views: 273513
8:15
Katyn Massacre
Película: Katyn
Escena de los fusilamientos en los Bosques de Katyn.
published: 21 Mar 2011
Katyn Massacre
Katyn Massacre
- Report rights infringement
- published: 21 Mar 2011
- views: 17384
11:46
(WARNING-GRAPHIC) Katyn Forest Massacre - Soviet Union - NKVD (SECRET POLICE) Joseph Stalin.
-Picstory (History)
-For Educational Purposes Only ( I Own No Rights To These Photos/Musi...
published: 27 Oct 2013
(WARNING-GRAPHIC) Katyn Forest Massacre - Soviet Union - NKVD (SECRET POLICE) Joseph Stalin.
(WARNING-GRAPHIC) Katyn Forest Massacre - Soviet Union - NKVD (SECRET POLICE) Joseph Stalin.
- Report rights infringement
- published: 27 Oct 2013
- views: 26403
9:57
Katyn Forest massacre 1 english
Documentary about a Soviet war crime 1940
published: 03 Sep 2007
Katyn Forest massacre 1 english
Katyn Forest massacre 1 english
- Report rights infringement
- published: 03 Sep 2007
- views: 72101
3:11
United States covered up Katyn massacre
Newly declassified U.S. army documents reveal that two American POWs sent secret coded mes...
published: 24 Sep 2012
United States covered up Katyn massacre
United States covered up Katyn massacre
- Report rights infringement
- published: 24 Sep 2012
- views: 2614
9:43
Katyn Forest Massacre by NKVD Communist Zionists english subtitles 360p
published: 30 Jun 2015
Katyn Forest Massacre by NKVD Communist Zionists english subtitles 360p
Katyn Forest Massacre by NKVD Communist Zionists english subtitles 360p
- Report rights infringement
- published: 30 Jun 2015
- views: 562
14:35
KATYN: Slaughter and Silence Rare Documentary True Story PT1/4
Taken from a rare VHS ive owned since the early 90's.This is part 1 of 4. Check my channel...
published: 20 Feb 2011
KATYN: Slaughter and Silence Rare Documentary True Story PT1/4
KATYN: Slaughter and Silence Rare Documentary True Story PT1/4
- Report rights infringement
- published: 20 Feb 2011
- views: 9829
10:28
Katyn Forest Massacre - Execution of Polish Officers by the Soviet NKVD in 1940_WWII Documentary
►My channel: http://youtube.com/TheBestFilmArchives
►SUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/The...
published: 25 Mar 2013
Katyn Forest Massacre - Execution of Polish Officers by the Soviet NKVD in 1940_WWII Documentary
Katyn Forest Massacre - Execution of Polish Officers by the Soviet NKVD in 1940_WWII Documentary
- Report rights infringement
- published: 25 Mar 2013
- views: 10326
3:20
Truth Is Out: Katyn massacre carried out on Stalin's direct orders
Joseph Stalin was responsible for the mass killing of Polish prisoners in Western Russia i...
published: 26 Nov 2010
Truth Is Out: Katyn massacre carried out on Stalin's direct orders
Truth Is Out: Katyn massacre carried out on Stalin's direct orders
- Report rights infringement
- published: 26 Nov 2010
- views: 28209
10:38
Katyn forest massacre
Horrifying Russian murder during WW 2. 25 700 Polish POW killed by Soviet NKVD following ...
published: 24 Apr 2007
Katyn forest massacre
21,768 murdered in Katyn massacre by the Soviet NK...
The Katyn massacre, a truth revealed...
KATYN MASSACRE execution of Polish officers...
Katyn Massacre...
(WARNING-GRAPHIC) Katyn Forest Massacre - Soviet U...
Katyn Forest massacre 1 english...
United States covered up Katyn massacre...
Katyn Forest Massacre by NKVD Communist Zionists e...
KATYN: Slaughter and Silence Rare Documentary ...
Katyn Forest Massacre - Execution of Polish Office...
Truth Is Out: Katyn massacre carried out on Stalin...
Katyn forest massacre...
photo: AP / Mikhail Klimentyev/SPUTNIK, Kremlin Pool Photo
Putin blasts West on first trip to EU country this year
Edit St Louis Post-Dispatch 28 May 2016
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — On his first trip to a European Union country this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday sharply criticized western policy toward Moscow, describing a newly expanded U.S. missile defense system as a threat to his… ... ....
photo: Public Domain / Alexas_Fotos
'Mass rape' video on social media shocks Brazil
Edit BBC News 27 May 2016
Brazilian police are hunting more than 30 men suspected of raping a teenage girl in Rio de Janeiro, and of putting video of the attack on social media. The girl is reported to have gone to her boyfriend's house on Saturday and to have regained consciousness later, surrounded by the men ... ....
photo: AP / Leo Correa
Brazil police identify 4 of 30-plus men wanted in gang rape
Edit One India 28 May 2016
Rio de Janeiro, May 28. Police has said that they have identified and are searching for four of the more than 30 men suspected in the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl, a case that has rocked Latin America's largest nation ... ....
photo: AP / Paul Sancya
It’s Game On for Sanders and Trump but Game Over for Hillary
Edit WorldNews.com 27 May 2016
Article by WNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. While it hasn’t been a good week for Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton, the latest twist and turn in this surprising 2016 presidential race has just caused Donald Trump’s and Bernie Sanders’ poll numbers to surge. Indeed, on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” the presumptive Republican nominee was asked if he would consider debating with Sanders ... But it gets even worse ... Sanders....
photo: Creative Commons / Sodakan
Judge orders Johnny Depp to stay away from estranged wife
Edit The Malta Independent 28 May 2016
A judge ordered Johnny Depp to stay away from estranged wife Amber Heard after she accused the Oscar-nominated actor of repeatedly hitting her during a recent fight and leaving her face bruised. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carl H. Moor also ruled that Depp shouldn't try to contact Heard until a hearing is conducted on June 17 ... A Walt Disney Pictures spokesman declined comment on Heard's allegations ... ....
« back to news headlines
Discovering the truth about the Katyn Massacre
Edit The Examiner 02 May 2016
Among the atrocities of World War II is the Katyn Forest Massacre ... For years, people believed that the Nazis perpetrated the Katyn Forest Massacre, but the Soviets did the killing ... Much of this, like the Katyn Massacre, was not revealed until later because of the Soviet Union's status as part of the Allied force ... For many years, the debate over who was responsible for the Katyn Forest Massacre continued....
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation)
Edit Public Technologies 29 Apr 2016
(Source. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation) ... It is especially shocking that the above decision was taken after the Russian authorities had provided all-round assistance to the Polish colleagues' events held in the Smolensk Region to commemorate the Katyn massacre and the crash of the Polish President's aircraft near Smolensk on April 20, 2010 ... Original Document ... (noodl. 33321222) ....
Prime Minister Szydło paid tribute to the victims of the Katyń massacre (Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland)
Edit Public Technologies 26 Apr 2016Polish leaders threaten fate of nearly finished WWII museum
Edit Springfield News-Sun 24 Apr 2016
Poland's conservative government is taking steps that threaten an ambitious new World War II museum which international experts have spent eight years creating — the latest ideological battle the nation's nationalistic authorities are waging against the pro-European rivals they ousted from power last year ... He said it would also leave out key events like the Katyn massacre of some 22,000 Polish officers by the Soviet secret police ... ....
How a 2010 air crash is still dividing Poland
Edit New Statesman 17 Apr 2016
The conspiracy theories around the Smolensk crash continue to unsettle Polish politics six years' later ... Unity was nowhere to be seen ... the 1940 Katyn Massacre, in which the Soviet secret police executed 20,000 Poles – an act they blamed on the Nazis until as recently as 1994 ... It did not take long before the victims of the Smolensk plane crash were being likened to those who died in Katyn and referred to as “the fallen” ... Getty ....
Poles Apart
Edit Al Jazeera 07 Apr 2016
Once a communist dictatorship, Poland is generally considered a successful democracy ... We went to find out why ... The Smolensk disaster is Poland's 19/11 moment, etched into the collective psyche; many political and cultural figures were on their way to commemorate the Katyn massacre - a wartime atrocity in which thousands of Polish army officers were gunned down by Soviet forces - when their plane crashed in thick fog ... Editor's note ... ....
Poland's Tea Party Movement
Edit Huffington Post 02 Mar 2016
On a rainy day in April 1990, I journeyed to the outskirts of Warsaw to one of those functional Communist-era apartment building complexes to meet with Antoni Macierewicz ... war in Vietnam ... But it gets worse than that ... He believed that the Russians were behind the 2010 airplane crash in Smolensk that killed then-Polish President Lech Kaczynski and many other prominent Poles on their way to a commemoration of the Katyn massacre ... ....
The conspiracy theorists who have taken over Poland
Edit The Guardian 16 Feb 2016
The Katyn massacres had been part of a coordinated effort by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1941 to eliminate Poland’s educated classes so as to minimise resistance to the country’s division between the two powers ... The demonstration demanding justice for the victims of Smolensk was held at the monument to the victims of the Katyn massacres....
Stroll through History / Katyn Forest in suburb of Smolensk, Russia / Quiet forest still asks what reconciliation is
Edit The Japan News 07 Dec 2015
In April 1943, Germany announced that the Soviet forces had shot the officers to death and named the massacre the “Katyn Massacre” (see below), taken from the name of the area nearby, and used it to show the world how barbaric the Soviet forces were ... Not only Polish citizen were executed by Soviet troops in the Katyn Massacre, it is said that approximately 22,000 people were killed in total ... ■ Katyn Massacre....
Embracing the Role It Plays in Your Life
Edit Huffington Post 03 Dec 2015
Seventy-five years ago, Joseph Stalin's henchmen (the NKVD) came pounding on my Polish family's door in Eastern Poland ... In a sense, I had gone from Glitz to Gulags ... Somebody once told me ... On Feb. 10, 1940 -- a few months before the Katyn Massacre, itself an event that went underreported for many decades -- under NKVD head Lavrentiy Beria's supervision, the first of several grand-scale deportations of Polish citizens took place ... I prayed ... ....
Airplane Black Boxes Can Reveal or Conceal a Crime (The Institute of World Politics)
Edit Public Technologies 01 Dec 2015
(Source. The Institute of World Politics). The article below was written by IWP alumnus Gene Poteat and published by the American Thinker ... The group were on their way to ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre -- the murder by Soviet secret police (the NKVD) of some 22,000 Polish officers and other officials in 1940 ... Read more ... (noodl....
Jan Karski (1914-2000): Polish-born Resistance Fighter and Professor
Edit The Examiner 01 Dec 2015
Jan Karkski was born Jan Kozielewski on June 24 in Lodz, Poland. His father was a leatherworker and craftsman. His father died when he was six years old and was raised by his older brother Marian. It was his brother who instilled in him the three pillars of the Second Republic—God, Honor and Homeland ... He concealed his rank of 2nd Lieutenant to that of a Private narrowly escaping the Katyn Massacre ... in 1952 ... citizen ... ....
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- Next page »
