"Glory to the heroes, shame to the criminals". Andrzej Duda celebrated the victims of the Katyn crime

—This 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 the 1 that later on in russian bayonets was brought to Poland with the blood of patriots and a lie, which they tried to compression into the Polish nation and the planet for years, trying to distort and erase the memory of that terrible murder," said Andrzej Duda.

— present 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 her spouse died on the way to Katyń. Poland’s blood again sank into that land,” the president stressed.

— Hail and glory to the heroes, eternal memory to the fallen and eternal shame to the criminals,” concluded Andrzej Duda.

Memorial Day for Victims of Katyn Crimes

On 13 April, the Day of Memory of the Victims of Katyń Crime is celebrated, and on Sunday from morning there are celebrations commemorating the 85th anniversary of the crime. The president commemorated the anniversary in Krakow, where he laid a wreath before the Katyń Cross in the Father Adam Studziński Square.

On 5 March 1940, the russian Political Office of KC WKP(b) decided to shoot Polish prisoners in camps in Kozielsk, Starobielsk and Ostashkov and Polish prisoners held by the NKVD in the area of pre-war east provinces of the Republic and besides in Kiev. The consequence of this decision was the Katyń Crime, which resulted in the execution of about 22 1000 Polish citizens, including almost 15 1000 officers of the Polish Army and the State Police.