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 speech on this occasion was given by Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
“Every time we honor the memory of the victims of the Katyn Crime, I think everyone feels the same way. That silence is more crucial than the most beautiful speech, due to the fact that words are missing, there is no definition to realize the magnitude and meaning of crime. We are never able to accept the triumph of evil. We are never able to accept that victims, those who service a good cause, are powerless. We cannot talk of this wisely erstwhile we see evil overcome good. erstwhile bad people pull out their weapons and shoot innocent people in the back of the head," said the Prime Minister.
— We can't keep quiet today. The victim of 22 1000 officers, enlisted officers, Poles, the elite of the Polish nation, this victim is an highly important, shouting lesson not only of history, but of a lesson which we must perceive to with peculiar sensitivity today. True, this evil has been overcome... but the evil that was the origin of this crime is inactive lurking around us,” said Donald Tusk.
Donald Tusk on Katyn Crime. "The evil is inactive tangible"
Head of Government in the course of the speech reminded the Russian attack on Sumy on Palm SundayAt least 21 people died. — Russian rockets fell on praying men, women, children, men, and women. A fewer hours ago. In the streets of the city are the corpses of those who died on that peculiar day in the same tragic death, due to the same evil. No sense, no pity," said the Prime Minister.
— This evil is inactive tangible. And as it has been for centuries, so present this evil threatens. It threatens our neighbours, threatens peace, threatens how we feel more and more powerfully all month, Poland and Europe. It's the same evil. Whether Sumy on Palm Sunday or Buczy's tragedy or the crimes of regimes with another leaders, in different historical periods, but this evil is twin-like to 1 another," Tusk added.
“And possibly the loudest thing we should promise Katyn’s victims present is that we will never be weak. What is freedom if there are no people willing to defend good, freedom, fact and to defend it effectively? How fragile these values are. As long as the lie continued from the fact about Katyn, the Prime Minister pointed out.
Katyn Crime
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.
