Poles vs. Russians.

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“A leopard does not change it’s spots!!” - - I. Pacepa.

"a German provocation."

"The Germans destroyed them," - - General Valentin Varennikov.

Again, the Russian, revanchist, digging-in-the-heels for a fight, denying history and doing so in a purposeful, willful, venal manner.

"1940 massacre of Poles remains potent issue"

And now, in this specific case, ALMOST SEVENTY YEARS AFTER THE FACT, POLES, THE VICTIMS, VICTIMIZED AGAIN!!

Access to archives and the unearthing of the gravesites, denied. An execution of captive Poles, 1940, reminiscent of the Katyn Massacre, only somewhat less in magnitude.

NKVD executioners, upon the order of Comrade Stalin, taking a month to shoot 6,000 Polish captives. Polish intelligentsia, military officers, priests, minor officials, professors, etc. The heart and soul of Poland destroyed, rendering that nation a hollow shell for decades thereafter!!

Russian “closet” communists now shrill in denying that events as described from the Stalinst era ACTUALLY EVEN OCCURRED!! A CLEAR AND CONSISTENT PATTERN OF DENIAL REGARDING HISTORICAL EVENTS CIRCA-WORLD WAR TWO is now commonplace within Russia. “Shrill” - - almost hysterically so!!

"This plays out against a backdrop of marked defensiveness over the Soviet role in World War II. The government has recently discussed criminalizing any criticism of Soviet tactics during the conflict, known by Russians as the Great Patriotic War."

Even the use of the word, “provocation”, is a holdover from the Red era.

The new Cold War has been in progress for some time now? U.S. statesmen, diplomats, and policy makers have a lot of catching up to do? Better hurry!

"the prisoners were executed: a single bullet to the head from a German pistol, historians here say."

[please note that in the article, it is mentioned that GERMAN PISTOLS WERE USED TO EXECUTE THE POLES!! Very shrewd NKVD officers having envisaged well in advance the time when denial might be needed? Plausible denial, as the practitioners of the “black arts” likes to phrase it? At the time the German was using the 9 mm parabellum caliber, the Soviet the 7.62 caliber pistol round!]

See these additional blog entries regarding the recent spate of Russian historical denials:

http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/05/rzhev.html

http://militarythoughts.blogspot.com/2008/03/this-is-coolbert-russia.html

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