Memos suggest US hid evidence of Soviet massacre during WWII (Katyn forrest massacre)

Fox News ^ | Published September 10, 2012 | Associated Press

[Eurotwit]

The most dramatic revelation so far is the evidence of the secret codes sent by the two American POWs — something historians were unaware of and which adds to evidence that the Roosevelt administration knew of the Soviet atrocity relatively early on.

The declassified documents also show the United States maintaining that it couldn't conclusively determine guilt until a Russian admission in 1990 — a statement that looks improbable given the huge body of evidence of Soviet guilt that had already emerged decades earlier. Historians say the new material helps to flesh out the story of what the U.S. knew and when.

The Soviet secret police killed the 22,000 Poles with shots to the back of the head. Their aim was to eliminate a military and intellectual elite that would have put up stiff resistance to Soviet control. The men were among Poland's most accomplished — officers and reserve officers who in their civilian lives worked as doctors, lawyers, teachers, or as other professionals. Their loss has proven an enduring wound to the Polish nation.

[kiryandil]

The Soviet secret police killed the 22,000 Poles with shots to the back of the head.

BTW - one Soviet scumbucket was personally involved in most of the killings, aside from the arch-demon Stalin himself:

Vasili Blokhin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Blokhin

He drank himself to death. Probably saw those thousands and thousands of faces of the men he murdered all day, every day.

[Eurotwit]

Thanks for that, I just did a quick title search for this story.

Glad to see it posted and widely discussed.

And, yeah I agree with you that the decision to keep it hush even after the war and all the while during the cold war is perhaps extra baffling, which is why I chose the excerpt that I did.

Hope all is well with you.

Cheers.

[HenpeckedCon]

Stalin was a monster and even Churchill said he would be allies with Satan if he would join the fight against Hitler. Funny how the Germans didn't show all of the men, women and children buried at Babi Yar.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Eurotwit.

...adds to evidence that the Roosevelt administration knew of the Soviet atrocity relatively early on.

It's just a coincidence, just as it was a coincidence that no aircraft carriers were destroyed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.