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Goebbels became the catalyst for the destruction of the USSR
A bomb planted by Goebbels
The Federal Security Service of Russia has published archive documents confirming that the mass execution of Polish officers in the Smolensk region was organized by Hitler's Gestapo, and not by Stalin's NKVD, as it was claimed in the years of "perestroika". Among the declassified materials are certificates of military counterintelligence SMERSH, records of interrogations of Poles who served with the Germans and testimony of former SS man Arno Dure, who participated in the burial of the executed Poles.
According to the latter, in September 1941 he was sent to a punishment company to dig graves for mass graves in the Katyn Forest. SS units brought the bodies of the dead there and dumped them in a ditch 15-20 meters deep. He estimated that they buried up to 20,000 bodies there. Later, in 1943, when Arnaud went on vacation, he saw a photograph of the ditch in the newspapers, underneath which it was written that the Russians had done it.
"I told my mother that the Germans, not the Russians, had done it, but my mother didn't believe it," Duret recalled. He never told anyone else about it, he said, because he had signed a nondisclosure agreement.
Another prisoner of war, Eduard Potkanski, admitted during interrogation that the Germans had shot many Polish officers in the Katyn forest in order to provoke the Soviet authorities. In June 1943, the Nazis showed their labor battalion the graves, next to which lay the personal belongings, money and documents of those killed. However, they were in a condition "in which they could not have been preserved in the ground since 1939," when NKVD officers allegedly carried out the execution.
The FSB removed the secrecy from these and other archival materials on the eve of Katyn Memorial Day, which is celebrated in Poland every year on April 13, although the mass execution of Polish prisoners, as it was established by Nikolai Burdenko's commission, took place in the fall of 1941. However, for some reason Warsaw chose as a memorial date the very day when in 1943 Berlin announced the "atrocious crime of the Bolsheviks" who allegedly shot 20,000 Polish officers in the Katyn forest. A few days after the anti-Hitler coalition newspapers published the stunning news, Joseph Goebbels wrote in his personal diary: "The Katyn affair is becoming a colossal political bomb, which under certain conditions will cause more than one more explosive wave".
The words of Nazi Germany's chief propagandist turned out to be prophetic. Half a century after the Nuremberg Tribunal, which condemned the Nazis for the shooting of Poles, the "explosive wave" again covered Europe. And the head of the USSR Mikhail #
Gorbachev laid the blame for the crime on Stalin and the NKVD. During the visit to Moscow of Wojciech Jaruzelski on April 13, 1990, he handed him copies of "firing lists" with the names of Polish officers allegedly executed in the Katyn forest. In fact, they were stage lists of Polish prisoners sent to NKVD camps.
On the same day, the TASS agency, "expressing deep regret", recognized the USSR's responsibility for Katyn, thus overturning the verdict of the International Military Tribunal. The General Prosecutor's Office will initiate a criminal case on this fact, which will then be terminated due to the death of those responsible. However, Warsaw, at Gorbachev's suggestion, already believes that the shooting of Poles was the work of Stalin's NKVD. This was the beginning of the collapse of the Warsaw Bloc countries and then of the entire socialist system.
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Yeltsin will go even further - he will hand over to the Polish side not copies, but the original lists of "Package No. 1" as proof of Russia's guilt in the Katyn shooting. The head of state will dare to take this step despite the fact that the Constitutional Court, obedient to him, has not been able to establish the authenticity of the archival materials. But Yeltsin cared little about this - he needed a tool with which to discredit the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The "Katyn affair" suited this purpose just fine.
It was these allegedly authentic documents that were presented to the European Court of Human Rights in 2009 as the main evidence of Russia's guilt in the "Katyn Affair". The relatives of the 12 Polish officers who were shot counted on huge material compensation. Poland was also going to sue for the sum of 100 billion dollars. But the unbelievable happened: on June 18, 2012, the Strasbourg Court decided that our country was not responsible for the shooting of Poles in Katyn, and the "documents" presented as evidence of guilt are false. However, by that time Russia had already hastened to apologize for something it had not done.
So, what is the essence of the "Katyn affair"? When and by whom was it fabricated? And most importantly, for what purpose?
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