FDR is a known communist sympathizer. Churchill not so much towards the end of the war. Uncle Joe had an express line to info that FDR was privy to. McCarthy may be reviled for his methods. But he was on the right track.
Begs the question . . . given the circumstances uncovered in Diana West’s work mirror current Islamic infiltration to this US administration, why is this not considered treason and stopped in it’ tracks now?
Here’s the 2007 Polish film Katyn (with English subtitles): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pocHgwUX5Ck
As With All Coverups The Truth Will Eventually Be Revealed.
The Roosevelt Administration included quite a few communists at very high levels, up to and including Vice President. Much of our history has been colored by the efforts to excuse communist behavior. Even the characterization of the Nazis as “right wingers” comes from this effort. The Nazis, of course, were radical socalists and were in fierce competition with the communists for political power. When we decided to fight the Nazis, we could hardly call them left wingers when we had decided to ally ourselves with the Soviets.
The Cold War caused the communists to go to ground, change their name, and cry foul over the exposure of those in their ranks by McCarthy and others. With the Cold War over, they have reemerged. Now, these communists call themselves Progressives and they once again occupy important positions in the White House. This time around, they’ve even managed to get one of their ranks into the Oval Office.
Seventy years ago, as the first Red Army units rolled into Poland while expelling the Nazis, the rest of the world learned that the Soviets had no intentions of honoring the promises that they made to the Poles. That was never their intention, as the Katyn burials prove, but our government helped keep the lie alive.
More than 600,000 died either during the deportation or shortly thereafter.
Almost all of them were reserve Army officers (anyone who had a college degree was a 'reserve officer' under Polish law), academics, lawyers, etc. and their families.
The Soviet Union and Germany shared the same goal of exterminating Poland's culture and sense of national identity by annihilating her educated classes.
I first heard about Katyn back around 1970 when some news article mentioned a soldier confessing about it.
The MSM then lambasted it as “hearsay” from one dubious source and that there was nothing to it, so forget it!
Then one day, I was in a book store which had a book of reprints of SIGNAL, the Nazi era magazine, with a large article about Katyn, complete with photos.
0 bummer's birf certificate?
Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided to go kill some Americans Poles?
What difference at this point does it make?”
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/timeline/description.asp?cid=121&width=650&height=240
Katyn massacre: Soviets execute tens of thousands of Polish officers 3/4/1940
According to data in the possession of the Polish government-in-exile, in early 1940 the Soviet Union held as many as 15,000 Polish prisoners of war, of whom 8,300 were officers. Taken prisoner by the Red Army in the second half of September 1939, they were interned in three camps: Kozelsk, Starobelsk, and Ostaszkow. Late that year, there were reports that the three camps had been disbanded. In 1941 and 1942, the Polish government-in-exile repeatedly asked the Soviet Union for information on the prisoners’ fate, but to no avail.
On April 13, 1943, the Germans announced that mass graves had been discovered in the Katyn Forest, in their area of occupation, containing the bodies of thousands of Polish officers who had been shot in the back of the head. The Germans charged the Soviet authorities with the murder and appointed a multinational medical commission to probe the matter. In May 1943, the commission reported that the graves contained the bodies of 4,143 officers, of whom 2,914 were identified by documents in their uniforms. It was the commission’s opinion that the men had been shot to death in the spring of 1940. The Soviet authorities flatly rejected the accusations of the German-appointed commission, arguing that the Germans themselves had committed the deed when they had occupied the area in July 1941.
In mid-April 1943, when the Polish government-in-exile demanded that an investigation of the Katyn killings be made by the International Red Cross, the Soviet Union reacted on April 25 by severing relations with the government-in-exile. This step would have far-reaching effects on relations between the Soviet Union and Poland. In November of that year, several months after the Red Army had liberated the area, the Soviet Union appointed a commission of inquiry of its own, which blamed the Germans for the Katyn murders. A United States congressional inquiry in the early 1950s found the NKVD (the Soviet secret police) responsible, and most Western historians now believe that the massacre was committed at the behest of the Soviet authorities. On March 8, 1989, the Polish government officially accused the NKVD of perpetrating the slaughter.
In 1990, in keeping with Mikhail Gorbachev’s Glasnost policy, the Soviet Union released documents indicating its responsibility for the massacre at Katyn, and uncovered further mass graves in the area.
History has proven over and over again that socialism is just another word for mass murder.
I truly believe that one of the reasons that liberals are so hateful is because they have aligned themselves with a system that has committed so much butchery, that demons flock towards anyone who accepts it, and overwhelms them.
You want to see what a liberal really is in thirty seconds flat, just tell them about how many hundreds of millions socialism has murdered, and ask them if they think that all those lives have proven that that form of government doesn’t work.
They won’t even blink as they reject your premise - all that horror doesn’t touch their souls at all. Zip.
At that moment, you will see them with different eyes.
Communism murders, democracy buries.
I’m not one of those ‘’few Americans’’who has never heard of the Katyn Forest Massacre. I’ve studied WW2 history since I was in junior high forty-five years ago. The USSR was an ally of Nazi Germany when this happened.
This is very interesting news to me.
So how long did it take during the Cold War for the US to blame the USSR for the massacre?
Maybe I should know this, I actually took a history course in college called WWII as a elective but that was long ago.
The Cold War was still on back then.
Good old Clayton Bissell!
In his reminiscences, Way of a Fighter: The Memoirs of Clair Lee Chennault (New York: Putnam, 1949), General Chennault, who organized a group of volunteer American pilots to fight the Japanese in China that later became the Fourteenth Air Force, had some choice words for Bissell, who was his commanding officer for a time.
He described Bissell as a boneheaded martinet who was so hated by his subordinates that they told their Chinese colleagues that "nuts to Bissell" (it was actually a much stronger statement) was an American greeting. When the Chinese greeted Bissell with that expression, "he was not amused."