Caught between two evil regimes

The Catholic Herald ^ | 19 June 2009 | Ed West

[bronxville]

Until 1990 the Soviet Union blamed Nazis for the Katyn massacre of 20,000 Poles

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[gigster]

So, what’s the name of the film?

[bronxville]

Movie name = Karyn... Although the movie received so many good reviews, the company distributing copies of the movie to cinemas across the country is complaining they encounter serious prejudice and hostility. Martio Mazarotto of the company said in an interview that the world of culture and also of distribution of movies within Italy is almost monopolized by extreme leftists, for whom the truth about communist crimes is not a comfortable subject, so they are doing everything they can to suppress the message. The movie by Andrzej Wajda is silenced across Europe, said Mazzarotto. In some countries, companies bought distribution rights and are not showing the movie at all. They bought the movie to keep it away from the public, Mazzarotto argues. Italian culture minister Sandro Bondi, who asked the Venice festival management to screen Katyń in September, says he also thinks the movie is under an intentional boycott from leftist ideologues. http://www.polskieradio.pl/zagranica/news/artykul106623_EU_s_climate_package_a_costly_venture.html European leftists find Wajda's "Katyn" uncomfortable: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2233742/posts I just found it on the News section under another title. The lefties hate it so it must be good. A definite must see...

[bronxville]

Sorry, I see that my post got a little messed up.

[bronxville]

Movie name is “Karyn” - be on the lookout and see it if you can. Let’s support truth-telling movies that the lefties hate.

[liberte]

When I saw the thread title I thought it was going to be about the Iranian protesters being caught between the Mullahs and the Obama administration.

[Verginius Rufus]

The late Ryszard Kapuscinski was a young schoolboy in Poland in 1939 and tells what it was like to experience both occupations in his book Imperium. He also has a powerful section on the Ukrainian famine/genocide.

[bronxville]

"He who fights that Islam should be superior fights in Allah's cause" - Big Mo

[bronxville]

I’m hoping this movie is only the beginning of many more, such as, the Ukrainian famine/genocide. It’s time to expose the evil of Communism as they’ve gotten a pass by the lefties for way too long.

[kosta50]

Why is this on the RELIGION Forum?

[bronxville]

“Between 1939 and 1945 three million Polish Catholics (as well as three million Polish Jews) were murdered by the two most evil regimes to rule mankind. Of those, the Russians murdered a million, the vast majority prisoners or civilians.”

2nd paragraph in the article.

[lizol]

I've just found this on YouTube - it's the full "Katyn" movie with English subtitles, divided in 12 parts (about 10 minutes each).

A must see for everyone interested in the modern history of Poland and this part of the world.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Part 10

Part 11

Part 12

[bronxville]

Great - thanks.

[bronxville]

- Katyn Memorial - Baltimore. I think there are two in Baltimore. http://culture.polishsite.us/articles/art245fr.htm

[PzLdr]

I think you mean “Katyn”.

[bronxville]

Gen. Stefaniak and Fr. Francis Okroy, Katyn Memorial Chaplain. Fr. Okroy is a Polish WWII veteran and a survivor of the infamous Nazi German Dachau concentration camp.

[bronxville]

A clearer picture of the Katyn Memorial in Baltimore

[bronxville]

Yes, thanks. :)

[gigster]

My immediate ancestors are from South-Eastern Poland (Lublin), and what is now the Ukraine, in Volhynia.
We lost many people there.
The fact that the Leftists don’t want this film distributed
does not surprise me in the least bit.
They are up to their old, feeble attempts to white-wash their despicable place in history.
They have always been moral cowards, and are not likely to change their yellow stripes anytime soon.