Chapter 142: The Kayan Massacre
The Katyn massacre was not an isolated incident, but the result of a series of political disputes. The Soviet Union wanted to create a global proletariat**, and the animosity between Poland and the Soviet Union before the war was deepening.
After the Soviet-Polish War ended in 1920 with the victory of Poland, the Soviet Union had to abandon the push of the revolution to the West, Stalin was criticized for his erroneous decision on the Polish front, and the Soviet authorities saw their Western neighbors as the main enemy. Poland's continued eastward expansion, supported by the Entente and the Holy See, led to the complete defeat of the Red Army at the Battle of Warsaw.
The Treaty of Riga, concluded on March 18, 1921, gave Poland access to Western Belarus and a quarter of Ukraine. Between 12 and 130,000 Soviet prisoners of war were imprisoned in Poland between 1919 and 1921, of whom 65,000 to 70,000 returned to Russia, more than 6,000 became White Guards, and 2,000 became Polish residents and naturalized citizens. According to documents published jointly by the state archives of Poland and Russia, between 18,000 and 20,000 Red Army prisoners of war died between 1919 and 1922. At the same time, between 18,000 and 20,000 Polish prisoners of war died in Soviet prisoner-of-war camps.
In September 1939, after the signing of the treaty with Hitler, Stalin launched an offensive against Poland, which was resisting the Germans, one of his aims was to permanently destroy Poland's independence. At the outset of the invasion, the Soviets, as always, isolated (or shot on the spot) those they considered to be representatives of the Polish leadership, especially officials. It is conceivable that the Soviet authorities had premeditated the Katyn massacre, just as the Germans had planned in their territory. For the captives, the USSR did not treat them in accordance with international law, so they have always adhered to the lies that they are so consistent.
With the deterioration of Polish-Soviet relations in 1943 and the Soviet Union's domination of Polish territory in 1944-1945, the Soviet Union succeeded in ruling the conquered country as a communist puppet until the 80s. During this period, anyone who demanded the truth about the events at Katyn was seen as anti-Soviet and anti-Polish People's Republic. This is why post-war Poland has been dominated by "Katyn lies".
The Katyn Massacre, also known as the "Katyn Forest Massacre", the "Katyn Massacre" or the "Katyn Incident", was an organized massacre of captured Polish prisoners of war, intellectuals, policemen and other civil servants in the spring of 1940 by the NKVD with the approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
In 1940, about 22,000 Polish soldiers and citizens were massively murdered in the Katyn Forest, west of the Smolensk region of the Soviet Union.
On April 13, 1943, Nazi Germany, which invaded the Soviet Union, announced that a large number of Polish soldiers had been found in the Katyn Forest, and claimed that the massacre was committed by the Soviet Union, which the Soviet Union immediately firmly denied.
In the decades that followed, the Soviet Union and Poland were at loggerheads over the Katyn affair; , then
It was only when President Jaruzelsky visited the Soviet Union that the Soviet side officially admitted full responsibility for the "Katyn" incident, calling it "one of the grave crimes of Stalinism"
On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany launched a blitzkrieg against Poland and occupied western Poland. On 17 September, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, occupying all Polish territory east of the Curzon Line, capturing about 250,000 Polish officers and soldiers. The Soviets then interned Polish officers and soldiers in a number of newly built prisoner of war camps. The three prisoner-of-war camps of Starobelsk, Kozelsk and Ostashkov held about 15,000 Polish prisoners of war, including 9,000 officers.
The Soviet Union considered Polish prisoners of war to be a great burden: on the one hand, the Soviet Union had to consume valuable manpower and material resources for them in the intense preparations for war; On the other hand, Polish prisoners of war could rebel against Soviet imprisonment at any time, so it was decided to dispose of the officers among the Polish prisoners of war first. Get rid of the officers, and the rest of the soldiers will be left without a leader.
The Soviet authorities believed that the best way was to physically eliminate them. On March 5, 1940, the NKVD (Minister of Internal Affairs) of the Soviet Union Beria wrote a report on the execution of more than 20,000 prisoners of war and prisoners, mainly Polish officers, and submitted it to Stalin and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Brazzaville for approval, which was immediately approved.
At the beginning of April 1940, the execution of Polish prisoners of war began in earnest. Hundreds of captured Polish officers were taken in cars from the three prisoner-of-war camps and secretly transported to the Katyn Forest, where they were executed. The executioners stood behind the Polish prisoners of war and shot them in the back of the head with a pistol. After the burial, the Soviet personnel covered it with a thick layer of soil. Soon after, a second group of prisoners of war was transported to the same place to be disposed of in the same way. By mid-May of that year, the Soviets had executed a total of 4,421 Polish prisoners of war in the Katyn Forest. They were buried in eight large pits, covered with branches of pine and birch trees, filled with earth and replanted on top of them, completely eradicating all traces. In addition to the Katyn Forest, the Soviet side shot 3,820 people in the Starobelsk prisoner-of-war camp, 6,311 in the Ostashkov concentration camp, and 7,305 in other prisoner-of-war camps and prisons in Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. Together with the 4,421 people shot in the Katyn Forest, a total of 21,857 people, including about 15,000 Polish officers and soldiers prisoners.
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The massacre took place in the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp in the Katyn Forest. At Stalin's orders, in addition to the Katyn Forest, there were simultaneous massacres of prisoners of war in the Starobsk and Ostashkov camps, as well as executions of political prisoners in Western Belarus and Western Ukraine, including at the NKVD headquarters in Smolensk, a local slaughterhouse, and prisons throughout the Soviet Union. Of these massacres, the Katyn massacre was the largest. The investigation of the Katyn massacre in modern Poland covers all of the above massacres.
In 1941, German troops occupied the Katyn Forest.
In 1943, Nazi Germany uncovered the discovery of a mass cemetery in the Katyn Forest. The German revelations led to the severance of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Poland in exile in London. The Soviet Union denied the Katyn massacre until 1990, when it recognized the NKVD
In December 1945, the Soviet army sent troops to Poland in a large area, and the 1.5 million troops of the Second Front of the First Ukrainian Front began to attack Poland, and the Polish troops began to resist, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.
Tens of thousands of soldiers escorted the prisoners back to the forest, the big pit dug was very deep, the soldiers tied their hands and drove down, dozens of machine guns, one by one, under Zhukov's order, a dozen machine guns kept firing, snapping, snappingγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγ One by one, the soldiers fell, rivers of blood flowingγγγγγγγγγγγγγγ
The Sino-German coalition army also began to land a large number of troops in Hawaii, the indigenous armed forces now have more than 2 million, began to be supported by the German army, there are instructor training, and then launched an attack, about 2 months a large number of troops hit the state of Gallara, the United States high-level did not expect that the war is now getting bigger and bigger, and it actually burned to the mainland of the United States, Truman said that Roosevelt made a serious mistake, should not protect the Japanese militarists, and now there are more and more anti-war people in the country, and the American police began to arrest the protesters, A few days later, the protesters were more and more, and slowly an arrest operation escalated into a violent clash between the police and the people due to poor handling, at this time, the Seventh Army of the United States Marine Corps was attacked by the enemy and suffered heavy losses, and was retreating, the sea and air were sparsely beaten, the indigenous troops were very combative, and the American troops retreated all the way, and the anti-war protest team became violent under the suppression of the police, and then developed into an anti-** armed force with the support of the coalition forcesγγγγγγγ
As the U.S. military cities continued to fall, a large number of U.S. troops became prisoners of war, and the American policemen who were originally captured were attacked by the rebelsγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγ
At this time, Li Ming asked the troops to stop the attack, and asked the soldiers to send a letter to Truman saying that they must surrender, Truman, Churchill, and then said that now the only way to negotiate surrender is to let the Sino-German forces retreatγγγγγ Otherwise, if the battle continues, the United States will fall, and this place will become a colony of China and Germany in the future, which we do not want to see.
For the sake of the interests of the United States, taking into account the overall situation, the negotiations were restarted, and Li Ming saw that the political goal had been achieved, so he negotiated armistice negotiations with Hitler, because the Sino-German battlefield front was also very long, and the logistics could not hold on for a long time, so the United States was brought to its knees in the negotiation war, and the benefits after the war must be brought to the negotiating tableγγγγγγ
The four-party negotiations between China, Germany, the United States, Britain and France were held in Washington, USA, in a luxurious hall, the soldiers were standing with Thomson, for the safety of the negotiators, China and Germany dispatched 2 special brigades, elite troops, snipers have been arranged, and there are still a large number of troops, as long as the Yankees play any tricks, shoot me immediately, sniper observers negotiate every moveγγγγγ Li Ming listed that China and Germany should have special rights in the United States, not restricted by US law, and that the offenders should have their own institutions to try them, that the Chinese and German forces completely withdrew after the war, recognized the United States and Britain as sovereign states, and rewarded China with 700 billion US dollars after the war, Britain gave up the Myitkyina colony, France also unconditionally gave up the original ** colony, Britain compensated China 700 billion pounds, France compensated China with 700 billion coins, Britain and France did not pay enough reparations and finally assigned the city of Kurosawa to China, and Normandy Paris was finally assigned to Germany, Li Ming also proposed to recognize the armed forces of indigenous countries, and the United States gave up Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines all at once for its own interests, Li Ming wanted Canada, but in the end he did not give it, and Truman proposed that Japan had the United States, China, Germany, and Britain jointly occupy the land and divide it together, so it could only sacrifice Japan to keep the interests of Britain and the United States. Subsequently, the two sides specified the agreement Sino-US Friendship, Peace, and Non-Aggression Agreement, and the Sino-British, Sino-French, and Friendly Non-Aggression Agreement, a long agreement of dozens of pages, and the two sides began to sign the secret numb words.
A week later, the Chinese and German troops began to retreat, China and Germany established an embassy in the United States, Li Ming also began to invest in industry in the United States, and finally Truman gave Li Ming special trade care and allowed him to do business, Li Ming then reduced the American indemnity to 2,000 US dollars, and Sino-US relations were one step closer, and China was a rising Asian power in the eyes of Truman in the United Statesγγγγγγ