Stalin's actions could be a response to the destruction by the Poles of thousands of captured Red Army soldiers
April in Poland is the time of the traditional annual take-off of embittered anti-Russian campaigns in connection with the anniversary of the execution of Polish officers in Katyn in 1940 year.
In the print media, on TV, accusations of “genocide of the Polish people” are pouring on Russia on the Internet one after another. emphasizes, what in 1940 Moscow was allegedly guided by racist-imperialist convictions, destroying the Poles for, that they are poles. Polish historiography dates back to this “genocide” from the so-called Polish operation of the NKVD 1937-1938 gg., calling her Katyn prelude.
“A clear and clear goal is visible in the Katyn crime - to completely deprive the Polish people of the opportunity to revive an independent state. The introduction to this crime was a racist anti-Polish operation carried out two years earlier ... by the NKVD ... " - says the publication of the Polish Institute of National Memory (PINP).
A sober examination of historical facts is rejected from the start.. As the goal of the "Polish operation" of the NKVD could be the deprivation of Poles "The possibility of the revival of an independent state", if by this time Poland had already been independent for nineteen years? Operation, conducted by the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, had nothing to do with the anti-Polish act: the purpose of the operation was the defeat of the joint intelligence network of Nazi Germany intelligence, fascist Italy, militaristic Japan and pansky Poland).
Polish scholars and the Polish press do not deny, that many Polish officers executed in Katyn were members of the Polish military organization (Polish Military Organization, POW), created by the ideologist of the Commonwealth “from sea to sea”, dictator Jozef Pilsudski.
POW appeared in the First World War and was aimed at conducting subversive activities against the Russian Empire; by the end 1914 her agents were already operating in the imperial capital Petersburg and Kiev. Structurally POW was divided into commandant "Galicia", "Ukraine", "Belarus", "Russia", and a, in its turn, on the district "Rivne", "Zhytomyr", "Kiev", "Odessa", "Vinnitsa", "Kharkiv", "Minsk", Moscow, etc..
The members POW and a number of other nationalist paramilitary organizations (Streletsky union, Polish Streltsy squads and t. P.) joined the Polish legions as part of the Austrian army and participated in the extermination of the Carpathian population of Galicia and Volhynia. They were involved in the horrors of Thalerhof and Terezin., the prototype of the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz called the later generation of carpathians, Dachau and Treblinki.
In the 1930s, the Second Division of the General Staff of the Polish Army (military intelligence and counterintelligence) all that remained was to “wake up” the sleeping cells POW in the USSR and connect them to espionage activities.
After unleashed Warsaw in 1919 g. Soviet-Polish war, ended with the establishment of Polish domination over Western Ukraine and Western Belarus, local cadres POW became the basis for the formation of the Border Guard Corps (Border Protection Corps) under the leadership of Henrik Minkevich, subsequently executed in Katyn. In Poland, Pilsudski reigned a sense of cultural superiority over peoples beyond the eastern border. “This borderland was more reminiscent of the Wild Field of Senkevich ...” - stated the historian Marek Yablonovsky.
After Hitler defeated Poland in 1939 year, the Red Army entered the territory, captured by the Poles following the war 1919-1921 years (Western Ukraine, Western Belarus), reuniting them with the Ukrainian SSR and the Belarusian SSR. In the Soviet captivity were more than a hundred thousand Polish citizens, the vast majority of whom were allowed to go home. Strange genocide!
A little more were captured 14 thousand Polish military (army officers, police officers, intelligence staff, customs officers, border guards, members of paramilitary Polish nationalist organizations, participants in the Soviet-Polish war), extremely hostile to the Soviet Union. The modern Polish press with pride reports, that these prisoners of war constantly entered into political disputes with investigators and guards.
According to the NKVD, Revealed spies and saboteurs among them were 347 human, army officers 1270, police officers, gendarmes and intelligence agents 5141, members of Polish national radical organizations 5345. Leading posts in these organizations were held by former officers of the Polish Army, police and gendarmerie; they were tasked with preparing armed rebellions to overthrow Soviet power and restore Polish domination in the future over Western Ukraine and Western Belarus.
The Soviet leadership was also aware of the plans of units of the Polish Army that had left for the West to side with Finland in the war against the Soviet Union in 1940 year, why a separate brigade of podgale shooters was formed. The rapid defeat of Finland did not allow these plans to materialize.. Finland at that time was Hitler's partner, which didn’t bother the Polish émigré government in London, which Polish prisoners of war found in Soviet captivity considered the only legitimate authority for Poland.
The official opinion of Polish historiography about Polish citizens who were executed in Katyn as “victims of the Stalin genocide” is very far from reality.
Although some historians, including foreign, thought, that the Poles in Katyn were shot by the Germans, Russian leadership, not wanting to aggravate relations with Warsaw, recognized the responsibility of Stalin and his entourage and condemned the Katyn execution.
President B. Putin noted, that Stalin’s actions could be a response to the extermination of thousands of Red Army soldiers, caught in Polish captivity after the Soviet-Polish war. Warsaw refuses to accept responsibility for these deaths..
Vladislav GULEVICH
