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Katyn executioners named, protected by Russian authorties


celinski  31 | 1258  
15 Dec 2008 /  #1
It seems rewards for "drivers, typists and ordinary soldiers" involved took place. We must stop allowing Russia to say it was not them it was the Soviets actions. As Russia protects the criminals.

Researcher Nikita Pietrov has got hold of a list of officers of the NKVD - a forerunner to the KGB - who participated in the Katyn massacre, where up to 22,000 Polish officers were murdered in prison camps and forests in Russia.

The head executioner turns out to be the then 45-year-old Vasilij Blochin. Making his first kill of Russian dissidents in 1927 he went on to execute people regularly for the next 29 years, causing the death of an estimated 50,000.

polskieradio.pl/thenews/human-interest/?id=98101
Lotnik767  3 | 145  
15 Dec 2008 /  #2
It's all Russians that did that no doubt in that! And there has to be a way for those barbarians/ with out soul Russians to pay I hope some one day will make things right!
OP celinski  31 | 1258  
21 Dec 2008 /  #3
Thread attached on merging:
All archives on Katyn case transferred to Poland, Russia's FSB says

It seems we are moving in the right direction.

Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation transferred to Poland all the documents avaiable concerning the Katyn case, execution by the troops of the Soviet People's Commissariat of Interior of 14,000 captured Polish officers in 1940, news agency Interfax reports.
However, as the head of Department of registration and archival funds of the FSB of Russia, Lieutenant- General Vasily Khristoforov noted, the most part of the archives on Katyn events had been destroyed back in the 1950s.

axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1719
plk123  8 | 4119  
22 Dec 2008 /  #4
this is just a deflection of blame from the great killer himself.
Crow  154 | 9340  
23 Dec 2008 /  #5
best thing what Russia can do for Slavic world is to satisfy elementar justice speaking of Katyn issue

Russia should simple ask Poland.... What Russia can do to correct injustice done to Poland and Poles?
Seanus  15 | 19666  
23 Dec 2008 /  #6
The killing of 20,000 Poles cannot really be corrected unless one resorts to reciprocity.

The best thing would be an admission of guilt and an acceptance by the relevant authorities that action should have been taken sooner. No use blaming modern day Russians for what happened that day.
Crow  154 | 9340  
23 Dec 2008 /  #7
this is how i see this

problem is that Russians insist that they aren`t responsible because Katyn was `communist issue`. They insist that ethnic Russia didn`t commited planed genocide or mass killings of Poles. i could agree with that approach but on the other side some people of Russian ethnicity took part in execution of Poles, no matter that they wasn`t motivated with national feelings but were marrionetes of communists.

In any case Russian responsibility exist and i agree, acceptance of responsibility should happened earlier, much earlier.
Seanus  15 | 19666  
23 Dec 2008 /  #8
Aha, herein lies the dilemma. If I were to follow your logic to its natural conclusion, Crow, I'd reach the point where they made it a Polish issue through the imposition of communism. Regardless of what labels are attached, it's a criminal issue.

To je kukavièluk (sorry, Wrocław)
Crow  154 | 9340  
23 Dec 2008 /  #9
i`m completely objective here

i clearly said that there is Russian responsibility (in any case) but, you must admit that example of Katyn can`t be compared with for example that what Germany planed for Poland/Poles. Germany promoted absolute extermination of Poles (classical example of genocid). Its different kind of responsibility where ethnic Germans planed and commited genocide and were happy to do that and maybe are even today happy (at least same ideology [Nazism] still exist and even strenghtening these days).

What Russia wants to underline is that Katyn isn`t Russian ethnic responsibility and action.

i also agree, it was criminal issue and `kukavièluk`, to say it was disguisting
Bratwurst Boy  8 | 11831  
23 Dec 2008 /  #10
My....you are really generous and forgiving if it concerns your slavic brothers Crowie!
Seanus  15 | 19666  
23 Dec 2008 /  #11
Then it is no better than passing the buck. Look at the Eichmann case and Nuremberg. The culprits were brought to justice. If the culprits are now dead, all that remains to say is 'c'est la vie' and rue a missed opportunity to haul them under the coals.

Thinking in scale serves little purpose, such reductionist thinking flies in the face of the reality of killing. I've said it before, the heaviest penalties in law are reserved for murder, the taking of ONE other life. What about 20,000, Crow? Human life cannot be reduced to statistics and we cannot let ourselves think, oh well, millions were eliminated in the Holocaust, what's 20,000 more!? Serial killers take, what, 10-25 lives typically? We lock them away for good. They are psychologically ill also, insane in Scots Law anyway (total alienation of reason). As for those who carried out those summary executions, they may have suffered from diminished responsibility but I think otherwise.

My point is, we need to step in as an international community. Not sit like crusty old, bearded academics with woolly jumpers.
Crow  154 | 9340  
23 Dec 2008 /  #12
My....you are really generous and forgiving if it concerns your slavic brothers Crowie!

i had talks with numerous Russians. In their eyes Katyn looks disguisting and they feel only shame because of that what happened. There are rare Germans who could honestly regret what was done to Poles in WWII. Most of Germans in their heads simple thinks that `it was necessery` and many are ready to do what is necessery again. Today`s Poland obey to NATO/EU and it isn`t necessery. But, what tomorrow when Poles refuse Eurabia???
Seanus  15 | 19666  
23 Dec 2008 /  #13
Oh, Crow, I have to disagree with you here. Many Germans feel bad for what that Austrian did. I think it is the other way around, only in rare cases do they not feel regret.
szarlotka  8 | 2205  
23 Dec 2008 /  #14
Put me in off topic if you must but the thing I love about Crow's posts is the sheer number of new names for countires and regions they contain. Take Eurarabia for example. Next up Gondwanaland belongs to the Slavs. Continental Drift was a NATO plot.
Crow  154 | 9340  
23 Dec 2008 /  #15
Oh, Crow, I have to disagree with you here. Many Germans feel bad for what that Austrian did. I think it is the other way around, only in rare cases do they not feel regret.

i hope that i am wrong and that you are right
OP celinski  31 | 1258  
23 Dec 2008 /  #16
Katyn can`t be compared with for example that what Germany planed for Poland/Poles. Germany promoted absolute extermination of Poles (classical example of genocid).

"Germany promoted absolute extermination of Poles" as did Soviets.
Crow  154 | 9340  
23 Dec 2008 /  #17
Put me in off topic if you must but the thing I love about Crow's posts is the sheer number of new names for countires and regions they contain. Take Eurarabia for example. Next up Gondwanaland belongs to the Slavs. Continental Drift was a NATO plot.

no debt about it. You deserved off-topic. That i like with Polishforums.com. You know when you deserve THAT.... Well, best is when you walk on the edge of it but be carefull, you aren`t me ;)

"Germany promoted absolute extermination of Poles" as did Soviets.

`Germany` is ethnic term, `Soviet` is ideological construction. Seanus, is it possible that you don`t understand me?
Seanus  15 | 19666  
23 Dec 2008 /  #18
You still haven't answered post 11, Crow
Crow  154 | 9340  
23 Dec 2008 /  #19
My point is, we need to step in as an international community. Not sit like crusty old, bearded academics with woolly jumpers.

there is no justice for Slavs in international community ruled by hostile non-Slavs. Not to mention that so called west does not have moral right to judge to Russia.

It would be much better that Slavic world condemn Russia for Russian failures and it is exactly what`s happening.
Seanus  15 | 19666  
23 Dec 2008 /  #20
Yes, I agree.

How about the other main part of the posting, Crow?
OP celinski  31 | 1258  
23 Dec 2008 /  #21
Not to mention that so called west does not have moral right to judge to Russia.

People have the right to judge other people reguardless of Slav status. Look at the judgement passed onto Nazi's (Stalin's insistence) and yet you can say Soviets should not be held to the same standard.
Seanus  15 | 19666  
23 Dec 2008 /  #22
When life is involved, morality should be at the core.
Crow  154 | 9340  
23 Dec 2008 /  #23
Look at the judgement passed onto Nazi's (Stalin's insistence) and yet you can say Soviets should not be held to the same standard.

crime is crime. Promoters and executors of Soviet crimes deserved same standards as promoters and executors of Nazi crimes. Just, Nazism glorified German nation and was tool of German nation. Soviets glorified communism not Russian nation. That`s the difference. Even more, those were German scemes which penetrated communism into Russia.
Seanus  15 | 19666  
23 Dec 2008 /  #24
Crime is crime, exactly. So, 20,000 is just a statistic then Crow? It has gone unpunished so far.
Crow  154 | 9340  
23 Dec 2008 /  #25
It has gone unpunished so far.

hardly.

Russia suffered condemtion from entire Slavic world and from entire progressive humanity. Russia is already severly morally punished,... look at us how we speaks openly about Katyn. Just that official Russia admit what must be admited publicly and to start negotiations with Poland how to repay that what happened, at least to try to repay (let`s say that way but lost lives are lost for good, its fact).
southern  73 | 7059  
23 Dec 2008 /  #26
Katyn is a dirty secret.Nobody will find out what really happened.
Seanus  15 | 19666  
23 Dec 2008 /  #27
And you think that Russia really cares? Siding with Venezuela and Iran, threatening the use of nukes. Come on Crow, you are a smart guy. Think about it. Besides, you are once again detracting from the loss of life. I get condemned for profane language, proportionality of punishment and all that.

20,000 lives, cheaply taken. Condemnation is barely even a slap on the wrist. So, we impose sanctions, wow, not gonna work.

Sorry, if condemnation is the maximum punishment for the taking of so many innocent lives, you lay down a dangerous precedent.
Crow  154 | 9340  
23 Dec 2008 /  #28
Russia care. Russia must care

Everything will be ok with Poland and Russia. Serbians guaranted it. We need that, we want that and when we want something we get that, we are Serbs.
OP celinski  31 | 1258  
23 Dec 2008 /  #29
Is Russia stonewalling? Lets look at Polish demands. Asking for disclosure and the best place is the Hague Court.

Truth and its acceptance by the Russians is the only justice available to the
victims and Poland as a nation. This was murder that was ordered by the State and
signed off by every member of the Politburo. With our information and documents we need to demand that the crime be condemned as Genocide by the Russian Federation and by World Court.

Food for thought,

From what I learned the only way that we will finally reveal the full
story is when the Russians decide to de-Stalinize and de-
Leninize Russia. That is unlikely in the near future, since Russia is
in the hands of former KGB. When the Russians do that, the rest of Europe will no longer have to fear them. Until that time they will remain a feared outcast. Not to be trusted.

How sad for the ones seeking justice.

Russia high court ends Katyn massacre appeals
1 hour ago

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's Supreme Court has rejected appeals to re-open the investigation into the World War II era massacre of Polish military officers and intellectuals by Soviet secret police.

The decision announced Thursday ends years of efforts by Polish families to get Russian authorities to re-examine the 1940 killings in forest near the city of Katyn.

Around 20,000 Polish officers, intellectuals and priests were killed by Soviet agents in the spring of 1940 near Katyn, now located in the ex-Soviet republic of Belarus.

The Soviet Union in 1990 acknowledged that dictator Josef Stalin ordered the killings.

In 2004, Russia's top military prosecutor closed the investigation after concluding that the massacre did not constitute genocide.

HWPiel  1 | 64  
29 Jan 2009 /  #30
"If we forget them, may God forget us..."

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