“This is unbelievable — this tragic, cursed Katyn….,”
An aging Russian airliner carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and members of his country’s military, political and church elites crashed in thick fog Saturday as it took them to a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the slaughter of thousands of Polish military officers by Soviet secret police.
Poles wept before their televisions, lowered flags to half-staff and taped black ribbons in their windows after hearing that the upper echelons of the establishment lay dead in woods a short drive from the site of the Katyn forest massacre, one of Poland’s greatest national traumas.
Thousands of people, many in tears, placed candles and flowers at the presidential palace in central Warsaw. Many called the crash Poland’s worst disaster since World War II.The Polish military suffered the deepest losses. Among the dead were the army chief of staff, the navy chief commander, and heads of the air and land forces, who were all making the emotional trip to honor the Polish officers slain by the NKVD, the acronym for the Soviet secret police at the time of the murders in 1940.
Rounding up a country’s leaders and killing them was customary for the communists. The assumption was that the leaders were bourgeois oppressors of the working class and merited death. As egalitarians the communists did not consider the Polish officers and intellectuals as naturally better or more important humans than the average Polish criminal or welfare parasite; the officers had basically used their class advantage to gain a better life-style for themselves — as far as the communists were concerned. Obviously, no one actually believed that theory – like many do today– except the criminals and welfare parasites and other aggrieved losers who were the natural communist community. As a matter-of-fact, killing all the leaders and would-be leaders of a conquered nation made them all easier to manage.
(LINK)That’s what the Marxists had done in Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic countries.
Needless to say this atrocity was blamed on the Germans who in fact had made the initial discovery of the Katyn massacre.
Nevertheless the Allied “journalists” made it clear to an easily duped public who they thought the murderers actually were. But facts are facts: the Polish leaders were killed in April 1940, when they were prisoners of the Soviet Union and when the Katyn region was under Soviet control which is what the Germans reported back to their government.
And the rest, as they say, is history.