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Poland did reasonably well in land terms out of the postwar settlement [270]
Oh yeah, that amazing cover-up that was frequently talked about on American (and British) funded media directed at Poland.
That amazing cover-up is in part to be blamed on the western media. At the Nuremberg war crime tribunals Katyn was cited on the list of crimes committed by the Nazis, Goring himself was implicated, where was that media then speaking the truth as to what had happened? I’ll tell you where. A little background to the story first.
Vilet was a U.S serviceman and a POW brought to the Katyn site as part of the Nazis international news conference to publicize the massacre. When Vliet returned to the States he wrote a report that concluded the Soviets were responsible for the murders. Vliet gave a copy of the report to General George Marshall's assistant chief of staff who subsequently buried the information in state bureaucracy. Another American George Earle a captain in US army who was assigned to investigate and compile information relating to Katyn reached the same conclusion, implicating the Soviet Union as the responsible party. However, Roosevelt’s government rejected Earle's findings and officially at least through the media remained convinced of Nazi Germany's responsibility. This action was later defended in front of the US Congress as it was not in American interests to embarrass an ally that the Soviet Union was.
The British government on the other hand publically stated via one of its media outlets the BBC that the British government stood firmly behind the Soviet version of the events. British Government publicly rejected the news of the events at Katyn that the Germans had announced just a few days prior when Radio Berlin first broke the story in 1943, mind you this is well ahead of what the Americans did, blazing the trail so to speak. That’s realpolitik for you and the truth as to what the western media and governments are capable of. They fair no better than the Soviets on the Katyn issue. Till this day Katyn remains to be the symbol of mass murder, official lies and propaganda war still waged against Poland by the very same players, not just those told by the Soviets themselves but that of the pillars of democracy where the truth supposedly always prevails, the British and Americans governments and press as well.
BTW Delf the credit goes to the Russians themselves for finally coming clean in the 90’s, as for the western media let’s just say they had nothing to do with that, shall we.
