#katyn — Public Fediverse posts
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Editor in chief of #Russia Novaya Gazeta Europe on exile posted a lengthy comment on the Russian “historic exhibition” at the #Katyn massacre memorial, about which I wrote a week ago:
The concept of ‘Spanish shame’ is widely known, but today I am experiencing ‘Medinsky’s shame’. It is a phenomenon that is difficult to define, where impostors representing your country commit unimaginable acts of villainy on a historic scale in order to justify their claim to power.
The Russian Military-Historical Society (RMHS) has sent a new delegation to the Katyn memorial complex, the site of the mass execution of Polish prisoners of war by NKVD officers. The new leadership is not sitting idly by and has already announced an exhibition entitled ‘Ten Centuries of Polish Russophobia’, which will take place right next to the graves of the murdered Poles.
Looking back over the atrocities committed by the Russian authorities in recent years, it is difficult to immediately think of an equivalent. This is not direct military aggression, nor is it the state’s extermination of its own citizens – here we are talking about something perhaps even more shameful.
Together with #Hitler, the Soviet authorities partitioned #Poland, deported and killed countless people, and in 1940 shot Polish prisoners of war. Afterwards, for decades, they pretended they had nothing to do with it, claiming that Hitler’s punitive forces were supposedly responsible for the shootings.
Rumour has it that the mighty Soviet Union behaved like a pathetic drunkard who hides his escapades from acquaintances because he is ashamed and afraid to admit to them. It was only towards the end of Gorbachev’s perestroika that they had the conscience to make a confession, when TASS published a statement to that effect in 1990. This was a step towards reconciliation with the Polish people, which is impossible without honesty. The USSR joined Alcoholics Anonymous fifty years after the deed was done.
In 2000, a memorial complex was opened at the site of the crime in the Smolensk region, and since then a wealth of archival documents has been published. And now, after numerous attempts to pretend that nothing had happened, the collective shame has spoken out loud and clear.
It turns out that ten centuries of Polish Russophobia are to blame for everything! It turns out that it wasn’t the #USSR that formed an alliance with Hitler to destroy Poland, and it wasn’t the #NKVD that committed war crimes, but simply that Poles are such innate Russophobes.
There is a huge mutual interest among intellectuals in Poland and Russia; take, for example, the figure of Adam Michnik, who published a joint book of conversations with Alexei Navalny. When people in Russia are jailed for calling for peace, Poland is the first to come to the rescue and save Russians from torture – hundreds of people have been able to leave the country since February 2022 thanks to the Polish government.
In a normal world, Poland is Russia’s key cultural and economic partner in Europe. But to achieve this, we must stop lying like the RMHS. It is deeply shameful.
Source: https://xcancel.com/kmartynov/status/2044408053299077541?s=20
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The disinformation campaign against the #Katyn massacre appears to be part of a wider Russian effort to rewrite history.
Circassian émigré organisations have published an open letter protesting against a film broadcast on state media which distorts the history of the conquest of the #Caucasus in the 19th century – as a reminder, the Russian military campaign lasted almost half a century and resulted in the extermination of 95% of the region’s indigenous population.
Most were massacred, whilst some fled to Turkey (“muhajir”). The contemporary Russian narrative first portrays the Circassian peoples themselves almost as savage subhumans to justify their conquest, and then speaks of “voluntary migration” and “geopolitical misfortune” when describing what was in fact #genocide and exile.
Added to this, of course, is Russia as the “bearer of civilisation” (Putin even enshrined this in the constitution in 2020).
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On 10 April, the anniversary of #Katyn massacre, #Russia opened a historical exhibition titled “10 centuries of Polish Russophobia”. Katyń massacre is where in April-May 1940 NKVD executed 20’000 Polish citizens taken prisoners in 1939 when it invaded Poland jointly with Nazi Germany. USSR consistently denied the massacre until 1991 when it shared original NKVD documents and orders of the massacre, along with the lists of executed.
On the photo below you can see a curious example of what, according to modern Russian “historians”, constitutes “Russophobia” - Polish president Duda hugging Ukraine president Zelenskyy in 2022.
P.S. Russia did not even exist “10 centuries” ago - Poland didn’t really have a target of its alleged phobia until ~400 years later.
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On 3 March 1959, #USSR KGB chief Shelepin proposed to Khrushchev that the files of the 21,857 victims of the #Katyn massacre be destroyed, because:
Any unforeseen indiscretion could lead to the exposure of the operation, with all the undesirable consequences for our state.
And no, he did not forget that the Soviet complicity was known to the world since 1941 when Germans invited an international ICRC commission to open the graves. Moscow simply denied that, calling it all “Nazi show” and continued to do so until 1993 when Russia declassified NKVD documents confirming Soviet complicity. In the recent years Putin again started alluding that it was not USSR but Nazis, demonstrating that history of Russia is highly unpredictable science.
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„Pojedynek” – jest pierwszy zwiastun filmu Łukasza Palkowskiego. Gierszał, Linda i gwiazda „Gry o tron” w obsadzie
W sieci zadebiutował właśnie pierwszy zwiastun „Pojedynku”, nowego filmu w reżyserii Łukasza Palkowskiego, twórcy wielokrotnie nagradzanych „Bogów” i „Najlepszego”.
Ten thriller historyczny, zapowiadany jako międzynarodowa produkcja, opowie o nieznanym dotąd szerokiej publiczności epizodzie z polskiej historii, który poprzedzał dramatyczne wydarzenia w Katyniu. Znamy już datę kinowej premiery.
Film ma rzucić światło na losy tysięcy przedstawicieli polskiej elity, którzy w 1939 roku trafili do rosyjskiej niewoli. Przez sześć miesięcy najwybitniejsi naukowcy, artyści i wojskowi byli przetrzymywani i poddawani indoktrynacji, nie znając swojego dalszego losu. Fabuła „Pojedynku” skupia się na psychologicznej grze między ambitnym sowieckim agentem a jednym z więźniów – młodym, światowej sławy pianistą, którego złamanie ma być kluczem do kapitulacji pozostałych osadzonych.
Za kamerą stanął Łukasz Palkowski, a w obsadzie znaleźli się czołowi polscy aktorzy, tacy jak Jakub Gierszał, Bogusław Linda, Tomasz Kot, Julia Pietrucha, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Anna Próchniak, Mateusz Kościukiewicz i Antoni Pawlicki. U ich boku wystąpiły międzynarodowe gwiazdy: Aidan Gillen, znany szerokiej publiczności jako Petyr „Littlefinger” Baelish z serialu „Gra o tron”, oraz Paul Freeman, pamiętany z roli René Belloqa w „Poszukiwaczach zaginionej Arki”.
Reżyser podkreśla, że scenariusz wywarł na nim ogromne wrażenie i poczuł potrzebę opowiedzenia tej historii szerszej publiczności, zwłaszcza młodemu pokoleniu. „Zrozumiałem, jak bardzo potrzebny jest nowoczesny film, który skusi młodego widza do zapoznania się i zaprzyjaźnienia z bohaterami naszej przeszłości. (…) Ja poczułem, że muszę opowiedzieć tę historię innym” – mówi Łukasz Palkowski.
Dystrybutorem filmu w Polsce jest Monolith Films. Kinową premierę „Pojedynku” zaplanowano na 27 lutego 2026 roku. Poniżej wspomniany zwiastun produkcji:
Kolejny gigant idzie na wojnę z AI. Warner Bros. Discovery oskarża Midjourney o „bezczelną kradzież”
#AidanGillen #BogusławLinda #film #JakubGierszał #Katyń #kino #ŁukaszPalkowski #news #Pojedynek #premiera #thrillerHistoryczny #TomaszKot #zwiastun
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Lesenswert: #KATYN: VERBRECHEN, VERTUSCHUNG UND POLITISCHE INSTRUMENTALISIERUNG
#geschichte
https://www.geschichte-statt-mythen.de/en/klassische-mythen/Katyn -
Muzeum Historii Polski przypomina o 85. rocznicy zbrodni katyńskiej. Wiosną 1940 r. NKWD zamordowało ponad 21 tys. polskich jeńców. Muzeum zachęca do refleksji i upamiętnienia ofiar. Więcej na blogu MHP. #Katyń #historia #pamięć
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13 April 1943 | The German radio broadcasted the news about the discovery in Katyn Forest of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war murdered by Soviet NKVD in 1940.
Today in Poland we observe the Day of Remembrance of Victims of the #Katyn Massacre. https://katynpromemoria.pl/the-history-of-katyn-massacre/?lang=en
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On this day in 1885, Gottlieb Daimler is granted a patent for a four-stroke engine, he uses it to create the world's first motorcycle. #Daimler
On this day in 1922, Vladimir Lenin appoints Joseph Stalin as General Secretary of the Soviet Union Communist Party. #Stalin
On this day in 1940, Soviet troops murder 22,000 Polish nationals in the Katyn massacre. #Katyn
On this day in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is formed. #NATO
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Denying agency is the Russian modus operandi
"The disturbing truth is that Russia doesn’t want the nations around it to have any kind of identity or agency. Russia wants these nations to be turned into servile and Russified masses. The elites, intellectual or otherwise, of these nations are the first to end up in ditches, because they pose a threat to a warped understanding of the Russian brotherly love."
https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/37627
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Dziś, 13 kwietnia, obchodzimy Dzień Pamięci Ofiar Zbrodni Katyńskiej. We Włocławku obchody odbyły się w piątek 12 kwietnia pomnikiem Żołnierzy Wojska Polskiego na Placu Wolności. Wśród ofiar zbrodni katyńskiej nie brakowało włocławian.
#wloclawek #wiadomości #newsy #katyn #kujpom #kujawskopomorskie #gloswloclawianina
https://gloswloclawianina.pl/2024/04/13/dzis-dzien-pamieci-ofiar-zbrodni-katynskiej/ -
#Russia is gradually returning to its old Soviet times narrative that #Katyn massacre, where 20’000 #Poland prisoners of war were executed, was actually conducted by Nazi Germany. FSB has just declassified (but not published) an “archive of interrogation protocols of Polish experts who served in German forces” which intends to prove that even these Poles believed the executions took place under German occupation.[^1]
The new Russian narrative is quite clever, because in one sentence they managed to sneak two lies - that Poles collaborated with Germans in Katyń and that the massacre was conducted by the latter.
In reality, Katyń massacre[^2] was conducted by Soviet NKVD in 1940 on personal order of Stalin countersigned by NKVD security apparatus and Russia itself published most of these documents in 1990’s during the wave of glasnost (which Putin apparently now regrets). Further documents were published in 2010, after the Polish presidential airplane crash near Smolensk in Russia and Russian government for a while wanted to show compassion. Putin officially admitted it was a war crime and Duma issued a declaration that “the Katyn crime was carried out on direct orders of Stalin and other Soviet officials”.[^3] The commission that investigated the crime in 1943 indeed operated under German occupation, but it was an International Red Cross Committee (ICRC) commission, not a German one.
But, as Russians say, Russian history is unpredictable, so on the wave of hostility to the West Russian hardliners started to return to the Soviet denialism. They also used it as a form of “punishment” for “unfriendly Poland” - for example, Russia still holds the wreck of Polish Tu-154 that crashed in Smolensk![^4] Publication of these interrogation protocols, whose value as evidence is close to zero and contradicts earlier documents declassified on genuine goodwill, is just another Russia’s step on the revisionist ladder.
P.S. the FSB or TASS even managed to make a stupid mistake in their statement, claiming the massacre was originally conducted in 1939 - in reality it was joint Soviet-German invasion on Poland that happened in 1939, but the executions took place in 1940
[^1]: https://tass.ru/obschestvo/20515213
[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
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13.4.1943: Großdeutscher Rundfunk meldet Fund von Massengräbern bei #Katyn. #UdSSR streitet die Verantwortung für den Mord an polnischen Offizieren über Jahrzehnte ab.
#OTD #OnThisDay #Kalenderblatt #histodon @histodons -
It's going to be personal, drastic and political. You've been warned.
Now I love Russian people as human beings. I'm pointing to the particular problem of the Russian society.
These things are happening now again in Ukraine. We should never get used to the violation of human rights. We should never forget to call it by it's name.
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It's going to be personal, drastic and political. You've been warned.
Yesterday I visited my grand-father's grave and as every year I was reminded he died because of a criminal ideology and Russian people's inability to not participate in it.
He was shot in the back of his head in the mass execution of Katyn as thousands of other Polish intelligentsia prisoners and officers.
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450 tysięcy obywateli II RP zostało wziętych do niewoli i deportowanych w głąb ZSRR. Część wróciła do swych domów po wojnie, inni zaś, zginęli w bitwach, a jeszcze inni, zostali zamordowani, jak oficerowie i inteligencja w Katyniu.
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Germans were punished for Auschwitz.
And russians for #Katyn - not.
So they repeated it.