Stalin Ordered the Katyn Forest Massacre

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Stalin Ordered the Katyn Forest Massacre

A researcher says she has uncovered vital testimony from a U.S. officer who in 1943 was forced by the Nazis to watch as they exhumed thousands of Polish officers killed on Soviet leader Josef Stalin’s orders.

At a news conference Wednesday in Warsaw, U.S. researcher Krystyna Piorkowska said she found the Paris-dated May 10, 1945, testimony of former American prisoner of war Lt. Col. John H. Van Vliet Jr. in the U.S. National Archives near Washington last November. It was filed among other unrelated World War II documents from the U.S. Embassy in Paris.

The sworn deposition provides evidence of Soviet responsibility for the 1940 massacre of some 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn forest and other places in what was then the Soviet Union. The Soviet Red Army had taken the Polish officers prisoner after invading eastern Poland in September 1939.

Another report that Van Vliet made a few days later in Washington is considered missing. This has fueled speculation that the U.S. government helped cover up Soviet responsibility for the massacre out of fear that saying the truth would anger Stalin, whom the Allies were counting on to help them defeat Germany and Japan in World War II.

For decades, Moscow had blamed the Nazis for the massacre, but then in 1990 admitted that Stalin had ordered it. The massacre further embittered Poland’s relations with Moscow, which has refused to consider the massacre a genocide and has been reluctant to prosecute any living henchmen.

Van Vliet was a POW in Germany when he was taken to Katyn to see the evidence.

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[James Dovery]

So?

This is the 21st century.

[confederate]

Originally Posted by James Dovery

So?

This is the 21st century.

riga, latvia. see if you can find some photos of the aftermath. i believe this was before katyn.
to answer your question "so?", this is what's coming. again. in one way shape or form. wise-up.

[leeluttrell]

Didn't I read that it was really the Soviets that built the gas chambers, that the Germans are being blamed for...

Just Sayin....

[Roy]

Originally Posted by James Dovery

So?

This is the 21st century.

The matter is important in that the 6,000,000 number is fake and the 22,000 is real.

[James Dovery]

Originally Posted by Roy

The matter is important in that the 6,000,000 number is fake and the 22,000 is real.

So what?

If 6 million jews weren't gassed then Hitler was a failure. Nobody else cares if 22k Poles were killed, not even Hitler.