How are trying to make money on the Katyn tragedy?
On the website "Voennoye Obozreniye", the topic of Katyn sounded more than once. The facts of inconsistencies in those documents that at one time the Soviet leaders gave the order to publish in the media were cited. Research was carried out into the evidence of those distant events. The point was that the fact of the destruction of Polish officers near Smolensk by the NKVD fighters looks too controversial. These inconsistencies and inconsistencies grew like a snowball. The deeper the consideration historical documents, the less it became clear why it was so easy at one time politicians with the help of the media suggested that we believe that the Katyn execution of Polish officers was the work of the NKVD, which itself was guided by a direct directive of J.V. Stalin. Mikhail Gorbachev literally trumpeted that the Soviet Union was guilty of the fact that thousands of Polish soldiers were killed in 40 near Smolensk. For the reasons that Gorbachev for the West in 80 — the beginning of 90 — was truly his own person, the thought of the atrocities of the Soviet special forces near Smolensk, and then with a certain amount of pragmatism, the framed facts began to turn around. in the absolute truth for our compatriots.
It’s no joke to say that the Russian presidents apologized to the Polish people for the Stalinist "crime" at Katyn.
The presidential apologies have become, in a way, a ritual of adherence to the ideals of democracy: the Russian president apologized for Katyn, which means that you can continue to press Russia further, ticking a statement called “400 relatively fair ways to democratize the Russian Federation”. And after all, our leaders stubbornly followed the same path that the first and only president of the USSR proposed in 90: repent, head bowed, not guided by original documents. And nobody decided to decide on a real independent investigation with the participation of several parties.
But the truth is that it’s true that sooner or later, whether certain forces want it or not, it will float to the surface even from the most turbid water. And she swam by all the laws of the genre. The most striking thing is that, unwittingly, the descendants of Polish officers who were shot at Katyn helped the birth of truth.
Recall that it seemed to the Poles that not only did the Russian leaders bring apologies for the “Stalinist terror” against the Poles with enviable regularity. Therefore, the descendants of the soldiers shot in 40-e decided to demand from Russia also the payment of a compensation amount in the amount of no less than 2 billion dollars, filed a lawsuit in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
After this lawsuit, it seemed that the court would quickly take into account the documents submitted by the plaintiffs, would not particularly delve into the circumstances and render its accusatory verdict against the Russian Federation, obliging them to pay the amount indicated by the lawyers. However, it all happened completely differently. The ECHR decided not to use the “documentary evidence of the atrocities of the NKVD divisions”, but to conduct its own investigation, as far as it was possible after so many years since the tragedy in Smolensk forests. The investigation lasted several years. As a result, the European Court issued a decision that, to put it mildly, the plaintiffs were concerned. The judges ruled that:
a) the Katyn massacre is indeed a war crime (in principle, no one thought to argue with that);
b) no new motives for the resumption of the investigation by the Russian (this is important) side were found;
c) Russia is not obliged to pay the “fair monetary compensation” demanded by the claimants.
All these points obviously did not satisfy the Polish applicants, who tried to again apply for the protection of “their rights”, and if you call a spade a spade, then for another attempt to break the big prize from Russia. This can be confirmed by the fact that some of the plaintiffs were so distant relatives of the dead Polish officers that they could hardly survive their loss so heartily. But it is obvious that the money question worried them much more than the question of the memory of their ancestors, after all, the point with non-payment of compensation puzzled these people most of all.
In general, attempts have been exposed not only once again to blacken Russia, but also corny - to get money based on a lie overgrown with historic moss.
One of the most remarkable decisions of the European Court of Human Rights is item “b”, indicated in this article. If we analyze the phrase that the court did not find the motives for the Russian party to resume the investigation of the Katyn case, then it turns out that there is another side that could well begin to dot the i in the Katyn tragedy. Obviously, there is only one such side - this is Germany. If the Poles blame Russia for not declassifying documents on the Katyn massacre by all 100%, then there may be even more questions for Germany. There the secret archives of the Gestapo are kept under seven seals, led by the chief ideologists of the lie, which was to become part of a large propaganda machine. And this lie is quite consistent with the imposition of guilt for the shooting of the Poles near Smolensk on the Soviet authorities.
If we take into account that as soon as the ECHR would have obliged Russia to pay compensation to the Polish plaintiffs in the amount of 2 billion, Poland would have filed a lawsuit in the amount of 100 billion dollars (according to the journalistic investigations of Georgiy Filin, published in the newspaper Version). And immediately it becomes clear why the Polish side needed a new exaggeration of the Katyn case. Such a sum from Russia would clearly have inhaled vital energy into the Polish economy and the economy of the whole European Union. However, the ECHR turned out to be truly democratic and did not follow the lead of those who wanted to make a profitable business with the help of the Polish national tragedy. In such a situation, European judges should be applauded, because they have actually proven that the court can be truly independent even in a “democratic” Europe.
Now it is worth expecting whether the ECHR will continue to work in the same vein or whether “democratic sanctions” are waiting for it, because it issued a decision that is clearly not in line with Western policy towards Russia. Recently, we have already managed to get used to the fact that any decision of the West regarding our country is biased and predictable in advance. But exceptions, as it turned out, are.
It is obvious that the exaggeration of the Katyn tragedy, which today has turned into a kind of pr-action, will continue. In addition to the Polish side, there are still many hunters in this world dancing on their bones and again trampling the truth deeper into the land on which Smolensk forests stand. In this regard, Russia needs to bring the Katyn affair to a logical conclusion, putting at the end a bold end for those who can not understand the essence of the Katyn falsification by the Soviet leadership of the perestroika era. The essence of the juggling of the materials of the investigation fits into the norms of a great provocation against the unity and integrity of Russia, and this is no less a crime than Katyn itself.
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