Context: Nearly 22,000 Polish military and police officers, border guards, intelligentsia, and prisoners of war were executed by the NKVD (Soviet secret police), on Joseph Stalin's orders. The government of Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in April 1943.\11]) Stalin severed diplomatic relations with the London-based Polish government-in-exile when it asked for an investigation by the International Committee of the Red Cross.\12]) After the Vistula–Oder offensive, where the mass graves fell into Soviet control, the Soviet Union claimed the Nazis had killed the victims, and it continued to deny responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the killings by the NKVD, as well as the subsequent cover-up by the Soviet government.
by MogosTheFirst
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A good reminder, especially with the rising amount of tankies
You have alerted the horde.
Gorba and Jeltsin condemned and acknowledged that russia did the massacre. Has putinist regime renounced this condemnation?
USSR: “The Nazis did this!”
Polish Gov in Exile: “Really?”
USSR: “Yes!”
Polish Gov in Exile: “Can we let people investigate it?”
USSR: “No, and we’re making our own Polish Gov”
And this is not even their worst crime yet…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Operation_of_the_NKVD
Weirldly enough, there are more people in Russia denying Katyn massare than people denying the Moon landing. The mental gymnastics they perform to discredit any evidence against them are even more absurd than the ones done by Holocaust deniers and worthy of a meme of its own
Hmmm, yeah, well… good luck, OP 🍀
Actually it wasn’t the USSR who did this, it’s just nazi/american propaganda.
Akchully communism was good.
Akulie USSR wasn’t real communism at all.
Akl ppl in russia miss cmnsm/ssr
Anyone who disagrees with me is furthering nazi/american propaganda lalalalalalala
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That is to say nothing of the plane crash that happened seventy years later. Russia probably had nothing to do with the crash, and Poland never should have put so many state leaders on a single flight. But it hurt Poland terribly.
The funniest thing bout it is this:
When Zygmunt Berling was meeting with the boss of the NKVD were discousing the creation of a polish army to help fight the Nazi’s, Berling asked why cant they just put in it all the Polish officers Russia was “holding capitve” post war, obviously unaware of Katyn.
To which, the boss of the NKVD reportedly responded
“We made a big mistake.”
And I just imagine he had the biggest “Oh shit” look on his face while saying it.
Why were there German bullets at the crime scene.
The craziest detail is that even after the Russians officially admitted responsibility for Katyn massacre, there are still russians who deny it.
Sometimes I feel guilt, my 3x great grandpa was Russian don Cossack and fought for Nazis during ww2 he was murdering poles during Warsaw uprising. I feel bad what happened to Poland as nation German empire and Nazi Germany hated it and Russian empire and Soviet Union same
Another day in r/HistoryMemes, another post glorifying Nazi propaganda.
Bullshit, obvious nazi propaganda because nazi Germany defintely “would not lie”. Especially in middle of the war of extermination lmao. Overall, it didn’t happen
Let’s not forget the [Polish Liquidation of 1937-38](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Operation_of_the_NKVD), a genocide of ethnic Poles in the Soviet Union. 111 thousand shot without trial.
Jarvis sort to Controversial
Let’s post more of these tomorrow. To make sure everyone remembers who was allied to the nazi’s during the start of the war.
I’m not trying to defend it, but there’s no such thing as a perfect political system, right? Europe and America have killed so many civilians.
Question why massacre this group of Polish men in particular?
Apologies but didn’t the soviets release rest of the Polish army they captured (this is not a defence of the soviets actions), allowed them to travel either through third party countries or soviet union to the UK and other places to form the Polish army in exile? Like the soldiers who fought at monte casino?
Just to clarify I’m not denying katyn massacre or defending the soviets. I don’t know much about Polish army history in ww2 other than than monte casino and the bear and I swear I remember the soldiers who adopted the bear were originally captured by the soviets.
Probably will appear on r/ussr in a while