Katyn Massacre

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[Romanov]

Stalin's Killing Field

One of the earliest--and certainly the most infamous--mass shootings of prisoners of war during World War II did not occur in the heat of battle but was a cold-blooded act of political murder. The victims were Polish officers, soldiers, and civilians captured by the Red Army after it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. Strictly speaking, even the Polish servicemen were not POWs. The USSR had not declared war, and the Polish commander in chief had ordered his troops not to engage Soviet forces. But there was little the Poles could do. On 28 September, the USSR and Nazi Germany, allied since August, partitioned and then dissolved the Polish state. They then began implementing parallel policies of suppressing all resistance and destroying the Polish elite in their respective areas. The NKVD and the Gestapo coordinated their actions on many issues, including prisoner exchanges. At Brest Litovsk, Soviet and German commanders held a joint victory parade before German forces withdrew westward behind a new demarcation line. 1

[Romanov]

Answer is in post #18 ask someone to explain it to you.

And as to your other statements:

"Posted by Romanov to spanalot
On Smoky Backroom 02/11/2006 9:28:47 PM EST · 56 of 68


How many times am I going to have to ask you NOT to ping me?"

Let me make it real clear to you - don't ping me, or respond to anything I post. You make it damn near impossible for anyone to have a rational discussion and are extremely childish in your behavior. Therefore, I have absolutely no desire to discuss anything with you.

[Romanov]

Answer is in post #18 ask someone to explain it to you.

And as to your other statements:

"Posted by Romanov to spanalot
On Smoky Backroom 02/11/2006 9:28:47 PM EST · 56 of 68


How many times am I going to have to ask you NOT to ping me?"

Let me make it real clear to you - don't ping me, or respond to anything I post. You make it damn near impossible for anyone to have a rational discussion and are extremely childish in your behavior. Therefore, I have absolutely no desire to discuss anything with you.

[T.L.Sink]

It's interesting that those words also appear on one of the great post-Stalin war memorials outside St.Petersburg and were the words of Olga Berggolsky,"No one is forgotten, nothing is forgiven". Relative to Katyn, after 1940 the 15,000 Polish officers were never seen alive. In 1943 the Germans disinterred over 4000 corpses, most of whom had been shot in the back of the head. The Nazis and the Soviets blamed each other. It was only in 1989 that the Soviet government admitted that they had executed all 15,000. An interesting aside to this horror is the fact that by the end of the war the Allies knew what had happened -- but by then Stalin was an ally and they chose to let the matter drop. So, for a long time this was "forgotten".

[Romanov]

T.L. Sink makes a good observation:

"An interesting aside to this horror is the fact that by the end of the war the Allies knew what had happened -- but by then Stalin was an ally and they chose to let the matter drop. So, for a long time this was "forgotten".

I posted a similiar observation and received an irate post by the usual suspect:

"Ae (sic) you implicating the US?"

Either this person doesn't realize the US was led by the socialist Franklin D. Roosevelt, or is defending Roosevelt's policy to ignore Soviet atrocities (Katyn for example) and hand Stalin Eastern Europe on a platter. It's no coincidence that Roosevelt's birthday was celebrated in the Soviet Union..

Sometimes the pseudo-conservatives slip up and let their socialist leanings show... No amount of labeling others "traitors" "commies" "Russians' Wives Club" etc., will erase the pseudo-conservatives' posting of socialist commentary and using Red-Brown (Communist-Nationalist) sources as "fact" and then denying it. Sources, by the way, that are not that easy to find unless you know what you're looking for..

[jb6]

You give Roosovelt to much credit calling him socialist, he was Stalin Lite and the only thing that saved the US from eventual Sovietization (just look at his economic policies and forced migrations of people) was WW2.

[Nickey]

This is how willing that people would turn a blind eye to tragedy.

[Nickey]

And too he placed the Soviet spies which had to be taken out of the Government and we did not find all.

[Nickey]

Soviets yes were masters of forward deployment and action. GRU had combat role here.

Criticism is of the Soviet Union and its barbarous nature. Actually forward deployment with neutralization of forces is accepted technique in modern warfare we should use it in Iran now to save 100,000 of our lives when we go in.