
A resolution commemorating the victims of the Augustowska Siege was taken on Wednesday by the Sejm unanimously.
"The 80th anniversary of the crime is paid tribute to the Victims of the Augustowska Oblast, the steadfast soldiers of the second conspiracy, who, after the end of planet War II, undertook a heroic fight for the actual independency of Poland and their families, who for so many years await the full fact and worthy memory of the Augustowska Oblast, as well as the discovery of the pits of death in which their loved ones rest," we read in the resolution.
It besides stressed that this year is the anniversary of the largest communist crime in the post-war past of Poland directed at the soldiers of the Poaków underground of independence, who did not accept the fresh russian business and members of their families murdered by Stalin's order in north-eastern Poland. "This large pacification action, present called the Augustów Oblast, was intended to break opposition against the submission of Poland to the russian Union and imposed by the communist power" – it was written.
At the same time, it was recalled that over 7,000 people were arrested during this criminal operation, carried out between 12 and 25 July 1945 by the NKVD, SMERSZ and the Red Army supported by Polish troops UB, MO and 1st Polish People's Army Prague Regiment. As added, many of the arrested never returned to their homes, and all traces of them were missing.
At the same time, it was noted that Oława Augustowska was carried out after the end of the war in Europe, that many of the detainees never returned to their homes and that all traces of them were missing. At the same time, it is added that the exact number of murdered or the resting place of their temporal remains is inactive unknown.
"In the period of the Polish People's Republic, the Augustów Oblast and its victims were doomed to oblivion. cognition of this crime was mainly stored by eyewitnesses and household of victims. There was a fear of repression by the authorities of the Polish People's Republic of Poland under the russian Union", the resolution stressed.
It was besides noted that in the 1980s, the Citizen's Search Committee of Suwałszczyzna Suwałczyzna Lost Residents in July 1945 managed to establish a list of about 600 names of people murdered in the Augustowska manhunt.
“Thanks to the efforts of families associated with the Augustov Oblast Memorial Union and the investigation of the Russian Memorial Association headed by Prof. Nikita Petrov, we now know that the number of murdered people — residents of Augustov, Suwałski, Sokólski and Sejneński districts and areas presently outside the east border of Poland — could exceed as many as 2,000 people,” he pointed out. As added, the investigation into the circumstances and conduct of the Augustowska Ogława has been conducted since his establishment of the Institute of National Memory.
The resolution besides notes that in order to full realize the scale of the crime, access to Russian and Belarusian archives is needed, which is highly difficult, if not impossible, in the current geopolitical situation. "Perhaps only future generations of Poles will learn all the details of this tragedy" - noted.
"In fresh years, measures have been taken to commemorate the victims of the Augustowska Oblast. 1 of these is the acquisition by the State Treasury of the alleged Turk home in Augustów — the place of the execution, where the office of the NKVD and UB were located, intended for the museum of the Augustów Oława Augustowska” – stressed.
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