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ROAR: Wajda’s “Katyn” shown on Russian TV before premiers’ meeting
Published: 05 April, 2010, 16:08
Edited: 16 April, 2010, 15:52
A film by prominent Polish director Andrzej Wajda about the massacre of Polish officers by Soviet soldiers in Katyn in 1940 premiered on the Russian TV channel Kultura on April 2.
sorry but wasn't Poland the country that occupied Russia for over 300 years, wasn't Poland the same country that invaded Moscow and burned that city killing thousands of Muscovite's, .. and also i remember reading history were Poland killed a few hundred thousand soviet prisoners of war in the 1920s, and i can go on and on ,...... i love Poland and the Polish people but they are some in that country (the elites) there that like to play the role of the victim all the time and they forget what they did to others because they were not only victims but also aggressors now us far as katyn is concerned its great for Russians to watch this documentary because there are some that believe it was done by the Nazis but the truth from records is that it was done by the soviets. and russia taking responsibility for that is great. the truth should set you free.
"factual" along a very pro-Estonian narrative I image as I notice the US State Department is helping in Soviet historical research Even the Katyn narrative is in some dispute "Take a look at this New York Times article from June 29, 1945. It states that Walter Schellenberg, head of Hitler's SS intelligence service, told Allied interrogators that the Nazis had fabricated the whole issue, and that this account was independently corroborated by a Norwegian prisoner. According to the study by Reinhard Doerries, a specialist in the Schellenberg interviews (Hitler's last chief of foreign intelligence: Allied interrogations of Walter Schellenberg. London: F.Cass, 2003) records of this interrogation of Schellenberg have disappeared from the National Archives. Interesting!" http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/pol/discuss_katyn041806r.html
To JohnX: unless you have seen "The Singing Revolution", your comments about its factuality represent absolutely nothing at all apart from your own pre-conceived ideas. In short, they are a comment about you, not about the film.
JOHNX– in Katyn massacre everything is clear. On 5 March, 1940, pursuant to a note to Stalin from Beria, the members of the Soviet Politburo — Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov and Mikoyan signed an order to execute 25,700 Polish prisoners of war. Take look at this : Katyn - decision of massacre. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Katyn_-_decision_of_massacre_p1.jpg GEORGE - “sorry but wasn't Poland the country that occupied Russia for over 300 years, wasn't Poland the same country that invaded Moscow and burned that city killing thousands of Muscovite's,” Sorry but wasn’t Russia the country that occupied Poland for over 123 years + 44 communism years after WW II, wasn’t Russia the same country that invaded Warsaw and burned that city killing thousands of people in 1794, 1831, 1865; and i can go on and on… About “Poland killed a few hundred thousand soviet prisoners of war in the 1920s” Both Polish and Russian sides raised charges of many violations of international law. The treatment of prisoners of war was far from adequate, with tens of thousands on both sides, in Russian and Polish camps, dying of communicable diseases. ( but in Katyn Polish soldiers were immediately shot in the back of the head). “Russia taking responsibility for that is great. the truth should set you free.” I agree.
Good. Now it remains for Russian TV to screen Tusty Film's "The Singing Revolution", which tells the factual story of Estonia's descent into, and emergence from, the Soviet Union.