Prof. Andrzej Nowak: KATYŃ IT WAS THE BROTHER OF PEOPLE - VIDEO

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Katyn, exhumations. photograph Wikipedia

We remind you of prof. Andrzej Nowak's lecture.

Katyn is simply a war crime, not genocide; people were annihilated not according to national criteria. You don't should be a historian - just read Marx, Engels, Lenin and another creators to realize that these people (who were shot Poles) were representatives of the bourgeois class - said the manager of the Centre for Russian-Polish dialog and knowing Yuri Bondarienko during the conference "Russia and Poland: a communicative that hinders common understanding".

Professor Andrzej Nowak referred to this message just before his lecture on Stalinist Russia's policy towards Poland. We callback this crucial comment.

I am to talk about Stalin's policy towards Poland today. It is hard for me, going to this topic, not to respond to yesterday's message about the Katyn crime, and presented by the president of the Russian side of the Centre of Polish-Russian Agreement and dialog on a semi-circular table, as it was seen even in tv relations, formally called a circular table devoted to Polish-Russian relations. You have most likely heard this statement, I will remind you that the president of this very institution, which is intended to service any Polish-Russian agreement, has made a message that clearly defines the terms of this agreement from the Russian side. We are to accept this memory, the kind of agreement that is dictated by Vladimir Putin – which dictates the checker's memory. We are to accept this memory, which completely degrades Poland and which disregards historical truth.

The core of this statement, however, came down to this - and this is the most characteristic and depressing for me - to what is said in Poland, in the same way as this man spoke yesterday, from around 2009, erstwhile the emperor was admitted here to Westerplatte Vladimir Putin. Then, to remind you, there was an article in “Gazeta Wyborcza”, printed for Putin’s party, which stated that the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact was a average pact, specified as is included in global politics for bunches, that there was nothing peculiar about it. This was written by a Polish writer in this paper. In 2011, I remembered an article from the same paper on the first anniversary of the Smolensk tragedy, in which in turn the words of the highest outrage fell in connection with calling what happened in Katyn 71 years earlier – genocide. This has been completely disillusioned, and lawyers have been hired, who were willing, citing their authority of expertise to say that no genocide has been dealt with in Katyn, that this crime is so hard to qualify. At the time, it was about the plaque that was walled by Dr. Zuzanna Kurtyka on the eve of that anniversary in Smolensk, with the approval of local Smolensk authorities. A plaque stating that those who died on April 10 flew to commemorate this tragedy from 71 years ago, as defined on this plaque as genocide. And this became the object of outrage among journalists “Gazeta Wyborcza”. There were besides leading politicians of the Civic Platform, with Deputy Marshal Stefan Niesiołowski, but besides others who said that, of course, in no case can there be a genocide here. Even specified suggestions were made, it was hard to repeat them – that in a sense those who died in Katyn in 1940 owed themselves due to the fact that they were offered cooperation, but did not benefit. They had a chance.

Such statements in Polish newspapers I read, specified statements from Polish politicians falling. I am talking about this due to the fact that it was yesterday that this man, who is acting on behalf of the Russian institution setting out the terms of the dialogue, said nothing else, did not tighten the speech at all. He spoke in the speech of those publications that journalists signed at our house. In our country. And if present we meet with a reaction of any kind of embarrassment on the Polish side, however, it has been noticed in general, although actually the MFA distances itself, that as usual nothing happened. Although the Polish side is laying very much money on the Polish part of the Centre for knowing and Dialogue, let us remind that this Polish part of the Centre organised a large debate recently, a period ago, as it was held at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, with the participation of 1 of the university professors in Poland, the main specialist – so to talk – from the historical policy of Vladimir Putin and the implementation of this policy in Poland. His main thesis, at this gathering highly monumentally organized by the Polish part of the Centre for knowing and Dialogue, again came down to 1 more part of what fell from the mouth of the Russian typical of the Centre yesterday – namely that Katyń was not a peculiarly noteworthy crime. Firstly, due to the fact that the crimes on another nationalities are many times greater, and Poles blinded by their chauvinism do not want to see this, and secondly, what was even more pronounced by this professor, the Katyn crime was purely classy, like all another crimes in the russian state. These crimes are the work of representatives of various nationalities who have nothing in common with Russia, and it is so a complete misunderstanding to charge Russia today, Russia in general, with work for the Katyn crime.

To this extent, the lecturer of the Centre for dialog and knowing a period ago in Warsaw introduced any confusion in the notions that the Polish Press Agency, providing information about this meeting, stated that the prof. stated that Katyń was liable for Georgia. He later sent a correction that he didn't mean it, but it just came out, didn't it? Of course, Poles – yesterday the talker emphasized - that Poles were the main torturers, as always, although they do not want to remember it, that it was Dzierżyński, but Dzierżyński had not lived for fourteen years. But that is not what I want to emphasize, not these absurdities, not these historical forgerys – due to the fact that this is simply a bright scandalous historical forgery. all conviction quoted so far is simply a blatant historical forgery.

The Katyn crime was absolutely unique and, to the top extent, not classy, but national, aimed at the Polish nation and as such, due to the fact that its intent was to execution a large part of the nation's elite, a certain cultural group – it can be defined differently – strictly meets the definition of the genocide crime which he presented, and which was adopted by the United Nations, the creator of that definition, Rafał Lemkin, a Polish lawyer of judaic origin, enrolled permanently in the annals of global law for introducing a definition of genocide into it. There is no crime, alongside the holocaust crime, which would have fulfilled as closely as Lemkin's defining criterion as the Katyn crime. This crime was intended to destruct the elite of the Polish nation according to the thought – as I will quote to you the applicable papers during today's lecture – with the intention of the creators of this crime, Lavrintij Beria and his chief of the Political Office headed by Józef Stalin.

To sum up this long comment – but the issue is closely related to my subject present – I would like to say that this is not what concerns me that the Russian typical makes specified a statement. I am highly afraid that he can actually appeal to the echo of this historical policy of Russia Vladimir Putin, which is being implemented by his Polish colleagues. Or colleagues in Poland, as you wish, will not argue about it. In any case, this echo is getting stronger in Poland and it seems to me without comparison more worrying than the consistent historical policy pursued by the Russian state led from Łubianka.

( Bondarienko's message for ♪ I don't care ♪)