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Katyn Massacre: Twenty thousand Polish soldiers died directly overnight, and the truth was crushed by the might for fifty years

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"A number of huge graves have been found in the Forests of Katyn in the USSR! There were thousands of Polish soldiers buried inside, and it was clear that this was an organized and premeditated collective execution! ”

It was 1943, and Nazi Germany issued a shocking news, and almost instantaneously, the whole world was sensational! Why are there so many corpses of Polish soldiers in the Katyn Forest in the Soviet Union? Why didn't anyone know about this before this? And why was this suddenly discovered fifty years later? What is the hidden purpose behind this? Today, let's go into history and take a look at the Katyn massacre, which was suppressed by the Soviet power for fifty years!

Katyn Massacre: Twenty thousand Polish soldiers died directly overnight, and the truth was crushed by the might for fifty years

Twenty thousand Polish soldiers died in one night, and the truth was crushed by the might for fifty years

The Soviet-German War found bodies

Needless to say, the Katyn massacre was a tragedy, and the attitude of all parties involved towards it was more desperate than the tragedy itself! From the time of the incident to a later official statement, the entire fifty years of concealment and threats became compromised and silent in the international community, until finally, when the power was destroyed, the truth gradually surfaced, and the opportunity for all the truth to be revealed was the war-torn Soviet-German war.

In early April 1943, German troops found the bodies of thousands of Polish soldiers in the Katyn Forest, 15 kilometers west of the city of Smolensk, and in order to find out whose bodies they were, the Germans organized an investigation team, including criminologists and pathologists, to investigate the Katyn Forest.

According to the age of the trees on the grave, the experts have found the bodies in diaries, letters, newspapers, detected the identity of the corpses, and determined the time of their murder, because the date of the latest newspaper was April 22, 1940, so it can be concluded that the officers must have been killed in the spring of 1940, and the handwriting on the letters was mostly in Polish, so the identity of the officers was particularly recognizable.

Katyn Massacre: Twenty thousand Polish soldiers died directly overnight, and the truth was crushed by the might for fifty years

The Germans investigate the Katyn massacre

At that time, the Soviet-German war had been fought for two years, in order to attract the attention of the international community to this matter, but also to find a reasonable excuse for its own "invasion of the Soviet Union", Germany, after learning about this matter, immediately publicized the matter, on April 13, 1943, constantly broadcast this news on the Berlin radio: "In the Soviet Union Katyn Forest found a collective grave of Polish prisoners of war, those Polish officers died extremely tragically, layer by layer, twelve floors, simply a 'mass grave'!" And they were all systematically solved from the back of the head with a gun. ”

Here, they secretly point all the proofs of guilt to the Soviet Union, which directly caused panic among the people inside the Soviet Union, but in order to "dispel the rumors", the Soviet Union quickly perked up and announced to the outside world: all this is the imagination of the German fascist villains, who want to use such absurd and despicable lies to cover up the heinous crimes they have committed, and this is now very clear!

Yes, the Soviets directly began to rake upside down, claiming that the bodies were killed by the Germans in the summer of 1941 after the withdrawal of the Soviet troops from the Smolensk region, and that the Polish prisoners of war who were working here fell into the hands of the Germans, were brutally killed by them, and blamed them all!

Katyn Massacre: Twenty thousand Polish soldiers died directly overnight, and the truth was crushed by the might for fifty years

The Germans investigate the Katyn massacre

Looking at the two countries that were still in a state of war quarreling endlessly over this matter, many "melon-eating masses" did not know for a moment and a half who was lying in front of them, but it must be some catty, otherwise they would not have quarreled so fiercely, but if you want to talk about the motive for killing, it is estimated that both the Soviet Union and Germany have it.

Therefore, in order to clear their own suspicions, both the Soviet and German sides organized a group of investigation teams on their own and began to conduct field investigations of the corpses of the Katyn Forest. At first, the way these people investigated, looking at the corpses of those people, they all came up with little difference: the corpses were all face down without accident, because the local climate was particularly cold, so they were not completely decomposed, and some of them also carried personal documents, so it can be determined that the identity of the other party is Polish!

Watching the two groups of people insulting each other here, and not yet being able to obtain the results of the investigation that would "convince" the whole world, in order to find out as soon as possible, the Polish government-in-exile finally sent representatives and began to enter the Katyn Forest, where a German 7.65 mm bullet was picked up. Because the Soviet pistols were all 7.62 mm in caliber, all the evidence seemed to point to Germany.

Katyn Massacre: Twenty thousand Polish soldiers died directly overnight, and the truth was crushed by the might for fifty years

The Germans investigate the Katyn massacre

However, the grove planted in the mass grave was three years ago, which means that the time of the "Katyn Massacre" was at least three years ago in 1940! In order to reverse the plot, the German army once again raised a new question at this time, but what they did not expect was that the Soviet Union had also planned to directly "take" a letter to confirm that they were still alive in 1941, because the matter was testified by the daughter of the US ambassador to the Soviet Union, so the doubts about this problem were quickly resolved.

All the results finally returned to the starting point, because the fog is heavy, so the Polish officers do not know who to believe, the two sides for this matter, there is no slightest encouragement, for such a situation, Britain and the United States still want to mix in, has been calling on Poland to be calm, do not hit the German side's "divisive strategy", must take the overall situation as the most important, it can be seen that compared with Germany, the Soviet Union is obviously more difficult to provoke, so Britain and the United States will also hide all this truth with the Soviet Union for fifty years.

After the end of World War II, the International Court of Justice in Nuremberg also avoided the attitude of this "Katyn Massacre", and even from 1944 to 1945, the Soviet Union continued to dominate Poland, ruling it in the form of a puppet government until the 1980s, so that poles were always controlled by the "Katyn Lie".

Katyn Massacre: Twenty thousand Polish soldiers died directly overnight, and the truth was crushed by the might for fifty years

International Tribunal at Nuremberg

Everything finally waited until April 13, 1990, when the Soviet lie finally broke down, when polish President Jaruzelski, when visiting the Soviet Union, finally admitted that the Soviet Union was fully responsible for the "Katyn Massacre", and in October 1992, finally made all the material about the Katyn incident public, at that time, Polish President Walesa handed over two copies of the top-secret files about the Katyn massacre, the contents of which were painful. And what happened, there was indeed a Soviet-Polish war, and their deaths occurred in 1940. Then, there is also the question, why did the Soviet Union attack twenty thousand Polish soldiers?

Supo's historical feud

If the Reason why the Soviet Union will target Poland and pursue its roots, it is the generational feud between the Soviet Union and The Polish, until the end, which led to the outbreak of the Soviet-Polish War. Historical Poland is an ancient and powerful country, at that time, the contradictions between the two countries have already taken shape, belonging to the East Slavic race of Poland in its strong time, no less bullying the West Slavic race of Russians, but also in 1961, Poland directly occupied Moscow, carried out a two-year long dark rule, until the two sides of the national power began to slowly exchange.

Katyn Massacre: Twenty thousand Polish soldiers died directly overnight, and the truth was crushed by the might for fifty years

Soviet-Polish war

Poland slowly declined because of its powerful internal friction, but Tsarist Russia, which had been in a state of repression for a long time, quietly rose in the process of their decline. In order to retaliate, the first thing Tsarist Russia did after its rise was to seek revenge on the Poles, and from 1772 to 1795, Tsarist Russia took Prussia and Austria and directly divided Poland three times and included it in its territory, until the end of the First World War, Poland finally had the opportunity to restore the country.

But Poland, which thought that with the support of Britain and the United States, it would gain the whole world, obviously returned to its former appearance of superiority, and he looked at his two neighbors and began to give them coercive orders to restore the territory of their country, and was immediately rejected by the Soviet Union. Apparently, this reaction directly angered Poland, so it soon provoked war against the Soviet Union and directly attacked the Soviet Union.

Katyn Massacre: Twenty thousand Polish soldiers died directly overnight, and the truth was crushed by the might for fifty years

Polish Army

Because of the support of Britain and the United States, the Soviet Union was defeated on March 18, 1921, and ceded its western Ukraine and west Belarus, which felt like a fish in the throat, like a thorn stuck, which made the Soviet Union feel more and more uncomfortable. At this time, Germany, as a defeated country, also needed to cede a piece of territory that was originally its own, so that East and West Prussia were torn into two pieces, which immediately made Germany feel uncomfortable.

Just after the restoration of the country will be their two neighbors offended, Poland's good days naturally do not last long, this matter of course the Poles have thought, but in his opinion, they have Britain and the United States as a powerful backstage, the Soviet Union and Germany no matter how they look at themselves is not pleasing to the eye, then can only look at it, who can think, the Soviet Union looked at the Poles have long been itchy teeth, so it will not care so much, directly on these prisoners.

Katyn Massacre: Twenty thousand Polish soldiers died directly overnight, and the truth was crushed by the might for fifty years

Stills from the Katyn Massacre movie

Because at the time of the October Revolution in Russia, the Polish army occupied the capital of Ukraine, in order to drive away the group of guys who occupied their own territory, the Soviet army at that time a total of 200,000 people were dispatched, under the suppression of strong troops, Poland was gradually defeated, and even the Soviet army had been beaten back to the capital Warsaw, Lenin was determined to let Poland know the consequences of angering the Soviet regime, and ordered the capture of the Polish capital Warsaw, but because the front line was too long, the Soviet Russia was defeated.

The birth of the Katyn massacre

This war caused the Soviet Union to directly lose 150,000 people, and then under the war, Poland also captured more than 50,000 Soviet prisoners of war, until the two sides signed an armistice agreement to release them, but only less than 20,000 came back, more than 30,000 people were executed by the Polish army in the prisoner of war camp, and it was because of this time that the Soviet Union was indignant, so in 1939, Stalin and Hitler signed the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact". With the beginning of the Blitzkrieg of the German army, the Red Army also began to attack Poland.

Katyn Massacre: Twenty thousand Polish soldiers died directly overnight, and the truth was crushed by the might for fifty years

Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact

Because germany and the Soviet Union attacked together, the Polish commander-in-chief Rez-Simigwe soon realized the defeat, and he ordered his troops not to fight the Soviets, to retreat to Romania and Hungary as soon as possible, and to completely capture Warsaw, while their main force was secretly hiding, accumulating the strength to counterattack.

In order to manage prisoners of war, the Soviet Union established a prisoner of war administration in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and from September 19, 1939, the Prisoner of War Management Army set up 138 transit stations and 8 prisoner-of-war camps, which were used only to manage Polish prisoners of war. But because there were too many prisoners of war, which not only consumed their own manpower and materials, but also highly likely to riot in prisons, they decided to take the lead in disposing of a group of officers in the Polish government, and the bloody massacre began.

Katyn Massacre: Twenty thousand Polish soldiers died directly overnight, and the truth was crushed by the might for fifty years

Stills from "The Katyn Massacre"

The best way to deal with prisoners of war was to kill people, so after a moment of reflection, the Soviet government agreed to shoot prisoners of war, mainly Polish officers, and in early April 1940, the Red Army dug dozens of super pits in the Katyn Forest in preparation for the massacre. After the pit was dug, they tied the hands of Polish prisoners of war behind their backs, and most of them knelt in front of the pit, blindfolded, waiting for the death sentence to be pronounced.

In order not to arouse unnecessary suspicion after the fact, the Soviets changed their German guns and bullets early in the morning and shot at the back of the heads of the Polish officers. Gunfire continued, corpses slowly increased, and the soldiers that day witnessed the first massacre of their lives. For each group of people killed, the Soviet executioners would bury a layer of soil on them, covered with branches of pine and birch trees, and then proceed to the second group of people, operating in the same way.

Katyn Massacre: Twenty thousand Polish soldiers died directly overnight, and the truth was crushed by the might for fifty years

The Katyn Massacre

Shootings, burials, filling in soil, scattering branches, and re-planting trees at the top of the craters until finally the corpses are completely destroyed, in the back, the prisoners of war who were executed are no longer limited to Polish officers, in addition to them, there are Polish intellectuals, politicians, public officials, etc. After the statistics, the massacre, a total of 21857 people, and those 4421 Soviet soldiers who executed the shooting, because of fear of leaking things, were also secretly executed in the end.

As for their whereabouts, the Soviet Union also had a long time to say that they had fallen into the hands of the German army, all of which was not until the German army discovered this "mass grave" three years later, and finally let the world know that there were so many Polish officers slaughtered here, bloody and cruel.

For such a tragic case, many people have different views, there was such a saying on the Internet, saying that the Katyn massacre was actually borne by Poland, that the Poles provoked the incident first, and then they were retaliated against by the Poles, and the Nazi Propaganda Department Goebbels once ridiculed these Poles in his diary, saying that they had more than enough to die, and they were the instigators of the war in World War II.

Katyn Massacre: Twenty thousand Polish soldiers died directly overnight, and the truth was crushed by the might for fifty years

The Katyn Massacre

But from an objective point of view, we will rationally think about the problem, can far-reaching national hatred and long-standing territorial disputes be the reasons for rationalizing and legitimizing aggression and massacres? Obviously not, even if the Soviet-Polish war that humiliated the Soviets was committed by these Poles, it would not be possible to extend their dangling butcher knives to the Polish prisoners of war who had laid down their arms at that time, and such an act would be difficult to stand in the face of morality and public opinion.

Why did the Soviets hide this? Why don't they show up and tell the whole world that they are now going to kill the instigators of the Second World War, these people who have disgraced them, these people who have made their country incomplete, so it is not too much for them to kill them now? It turns out that the Soviet Union knows that what they are doing now is untenable in the world, because the massacre is a massacre, and there is never any reason to wash away the essence of the massacre, so they will secretly execute these and make a careful plan to plant the booty for Nazi Germany!

Katyn Massacre: Twenty thousand Polish soldiers died directly overnight, and the truth was crushed by the might for fifty years

Putin attended the commemoration of the Katyn massacre

Therefore, we always say that when war really comes, the truth is the first victim, and the people of the country who are invaded by the hatred of their home country will look at the problem rationally! In 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the publication of historical documents of the Katyn incident, and Putin also participated in the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre in the future, and could not help but sigh: "A lie has been told for decades, but we cannot blame the Russian people for this, not only that, but also call for reconciliation between the two countries!" ”

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