President Andrzej Duda celebrated the 85th anniversary Katyn Crimes in Krakow, where he appeared after 2 p.m. in the Father Adam Studziński Square at the church of St.Jeda located in the Old Town.
Andrzej Duda during the celebration of the 85th anniversary of the Katyń Crime
– That crime was written down by black reports of mourning in the past of our nation and marked the communist government – and the russian regime, and later, which was brought to Poland on russian bayonets – first patriot bloodand secondly A lie, which they have been trying to force on the Polish nation and the planet for years, trying to distort and wipe distant that terrible murder, that genocide," said the president.
He recalled that the Soviets "murdered 22,000 Polish officers in the back of the head with cold blood".
Duda pointed out that in 1920 “Polish patriots, Polish army First of all, the volunteer group tipped the scales of Polish-Soviet war and Bolsheviks to the east." - That's it. I've compromised Stalin himself. as military commander. Stalin never spared it, so it was at his command, on his orders that brutal slaughter was carried out on Polish prisoners – officers of the Polish Army covered by global conventions – said Duda.
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– It was genocide due to the fact that an crucial part of the Polish elite was deliberately murdered, they were people with higher education, it was Polish intelligence. They were brutally murdered, wanted to wipe them out of life and memory. They managed to execution them, but never managed to teardrop from the memory of their loved ones and from the memory of our nation and their extraordinary heroic attitude, that They didn't break, they didn't cooperate. that remained arrogant Poles and patriots to the end, to the last moments of life – he said.
– Today we are openly talking about historical memory. We paid for this fact 15 years ago, erstwhile a Polish delegation headed by president Lech Kaczyński and the spouse died on the way to Katyń. Polish blood again sank into Katyn dirt – he recalled.
– Hello and glory to the heroes, eternal memory to the fallen. An eternal disgrace to criminals – the president concluded.
In connection with the celebrations The Day of Memory of Katyn Crime Victims, on Sundays since morning there are celebrations commemorating the 85th anniversary of this tragic event.
85th Anniversary of the Katyn Crime
In captivity, the ZSRS got about. 15,000 Polish officers. The decision to execution them – as enemies of communism and the russian Union – was made at the highest level. In accordance with the decree of the ZSRS authorities, signed by Stalin on 5 March 1940., the NKVD murdered about 22,000 Polish citizens, including officers of the Polish Army, police officers, border guards, prison services and civilians belonging to the elite of II Republic of Poland.
The crime has come to light 13 April 1943. For many years, russian Russian authorities denied work for this genocide, passing the blame on the 3rd German Reich.
The russian Union only confessed to the Katyn crime on 13 April 1990. At the time, the government's TASS agency officially confirmed that Polish prisoners of war were shot in the spring of 1940 by the NKVD. Guilty as indicated NKVD Commissioner Lavrientija Beria and his deputy Meerculova seed. The Russian side expressed deep regret over the Katyn tragedy, calling it “one of the more severe crimes of Stalinism”.
April 13th falls National Day of Memory of the Victims of Katyn Crimes, established on 14 November 2007 by the resolution of the Polish Parliament.
Also by decision of the Sejm, the year 2025 is the Year of Polish Heroes from Katyń, Mednoje, Kharkov and Bykownia.
