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Not to under-report German atrocities during the war, but Katyn was a Soviet atrocity [1]. As a side note, at the 70th anniversary in 2010, large parts of the p
by pintxo 5y ago
Not to under-report German atrocities during the war, but Katyn was a Soviet atrocity [1]. As a side note, at the 70th anniversary in 2010, large parts of the polish political establishment died on their way to the ceremony at the site of the massacre [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolensk_air_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolensk_air_disaster
- ncmncm 5y agoOops. Everybody mixes that up. Even at the time, the Soviets managed to blame it on the Germans. But there is plenty of blame to go around. The Soviets also had a policy of executing everybody in prison before retreating, piling the bodies in the cellars for the Germans to drag out and bury, and blaming the Germans. It was easy to believe it of them. Objecting to that policy would have been fatal.
- myth_drannon 5y agoAnd then Germans would arrive and blame the Jews for that, then local Ukrainian populace would massacre the Jews(Lviv pogroms).
- sofixa 5y ago> Everybody mixes that up. Even at the time, the Soviets managed to blame it on the Germans. Yeah, they even used German weapons ( supposedly due to better reliability).
- sofixa 5y ago> As a side note, at the 70th anniversary in 2010, large parts of the polish political establishment died on their way to the ceremony at the site of the massacre [2]. Still one of the stupidest plane crashes in history, up there with José Sanjurjo (which changed the Spanish civil war a lot and paved the way for Franco) and 1981 Tu-104 Pushkin crash( which wiped out the Soviet Pacific fleet's command structure).
- pintxo 5y agoGet-there-itis is a real problem.