I'm just trying to save face with this post:
"Memos show US hushed up Soviet massacre of Poles" by Randy Herschaft |
Associated Press, September 11, 2012
WARSAW — The American POWs sent secret coded messages to Washington
with news of a Soviet atrocity: In 1943 they saw rows of corpses in an
advanced state of decay in the Katyn forest, on the western edge of
Russia, proof that the killers could not have been the Nazis who had
only recently occupied the area.
The testimony about the infamous massacre of Polish officers might
have lessened the tragic fate that befell Poland under the Soviets, some
scholars believe. Instead, it mysteriously vanished into the heart of
American power.
It's because those massacres were committed by the most notorious mass-murderers of the 20th century. But then again, you have never seen the names Kaganovich or Yagoda in your ejewkhazional $y$tem, have you? Plenty of pages devoted to Heir Hitler in my history books though.
The long-held suspicion is that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
didn’t want to anger Josef Stalin, an ally whom the Americans were
counting on to defeat Germany and Japan during World War II.
Along with other reasons.
Documents released Monday lend weight to the belief that suppression
within the highest levels of the US government helped cover up Soviet
guilt in the killing of some 22,000 Polish officers and other prisoners
in the Katyn forest and other locations in 1940.
The evidence is among about 1,000 pages of newly declassified
documents that the United States National Archives released Monday and
put online.
Historians who saw the material days before the official release
describe it as important. The most dramatic revelation so far is the
evidence of the secret codes sent by the two American POWs — something
historians were unaware of and which adds to evidence that the Roosevelt
administration knew of the Soviet atrocity relatively early on.
The declassified documents also show the United States maintaining
that it couldn’t conclusively determine guilt until a Russian admission
in 1990 — a statement that looks improbable given the huge body of
evidence of Soviet guilt that had already emerged decades earlier.
Historians say the new material helps to flesh out the story of what the
United States knew and when.
The Soviet secret police killed the 22,000 Poles with shots to the
back of the head. Their aim was to eliminate a military and intellectual
elite that would have put up stiff resistance to Soviet control.
The men were among Poland’s most accomplished — officers and reserve
officers who in their civilian lives worked as doctors, lawyers,
teachers, or as other professionals. Their loss has proven an enduring
wound to the Polish nation.
It's the same thing Mossad squads have done in Iraq.
In the early years after the war, outrage by some American officials
over the concealment inspired the creation of a special US congressional
committee to investigate Katyn.
In a final report released in 1952, the committee declared there was
no doubt of Soviet guilt, and called the massacre ‘‘one of the most
barbarous international crimes in world history.’’
The most barbarous individual acts were Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It found that Roosevelt’s administration suppressed public knowledge of the crime, but said it was out of military necessity.
It also recommended the government bring charges against the Soviets at an international tribunal — something never acted upon.
Despite the committee’s strong conclusions, the White House
maintained its silence on Katyn for decades, showing an unwillingness to
focus on an issue that would have added to political tensions with the
Soviets during the Cold War.
Oh, that was a concern during the Cold War?
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Polish People Not So Stupid
The Boston Globe Goes Back in Time
Rhode Island Will Always Remember
The Long Litany of Jewish Lies
Also see: Auschwitz barracks to go back to Poland
I said no more Nazis and I meant it.
Also see: Reburial is held for exiled leader
"Pole held in plot to bomb Parliament" by Vanessa Gera |
Associated Press, November 21, 2012
WARSAW— A Polish university researcher driven by nationalistic and
anti-Semitic hatred was arrested for planning to detonate a 4-ton bomb
in front of the Parliament building in Warsaw with the president, prime
minister, government ministers, and lawmakers inside, authorities said
Tuesday.
The agenda never ends.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the suspect and his plot were
discovered as investigators looked into Polish links to the Norwegian
mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik. Polish security officials have
said that Breivik bought small amounts of material for his bomb-making
in Poland.
See: Breivik Goes Back to School
The foiled attack comes as the far-right movement appears to be
growing in Poland, and as tensions simmer between Tusk’s center-right
government and its main rival, the conservative Law and Justice party
led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
Kaczynski recently accused Tusk and other leaders of murder in the
2010 plane crash that killed his brother, the late President Lech
Kaczynski, and 95 others. A state investigation found the tragedy was an
accident caused by bad weather and human error, but Kaczynski has been
calling it an assassination.
It's no joke, folks.
And who benefited?
Tusk said the dramatic plan to assassinate Poland’s leaders shows
that it is ‘‘high time to abandon a language of violence and hatred in
public debate.’’
It's time to get rid of newspapers?
Prosecutors said Tuesday that they arrested the suspect in Krakow on
Nov. 9. They said he is a 45-year-old Polish researcher employed at the
University of Agriculture in Krakow who had access to chemistry
laboratories.
He illegally possessed explosive materials, munitions, and guns.
They said the suspect was motivated by nationalistic, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic ideas.
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As for the plane crash investigation:
"Poland identifies 2 more victims of ’10 plane crash buried in wrong graves" by Vanessa Gera |
Associated Press, November 22, 2012
WARSAW — Forensic testing has proven that two more victims of the
2010 plane crash in Russia that killed President Lech Kaczynski of
Poland and 95 others were misidentified and buried in the wrong graves,
Polish prosecutors said Wednesday.
WTF?
The number of misidentified victims has now grown to six and
highlights flaws in the handling of the crash’s aftermath in Russia.
Such errors are deepening Polish distrust of its historic foe, while
also fueling Polish conspiracy theories about the cause of the disaster...
Can you blame them?
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Also see: Protesters accuse Putin of murdering Polish leader
I don't think so.
Related(?): Poland in talks on switch to euro
I think it is.
Poland hopes to improve road safety
Then change the signs because no one can read them.
"Polish priests face sex-abuse inquiry" by MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | Associated Press, September 26, 2013
WARSAW — Polish authorities have asked the Dominican Republic for details about its child sex-abuse investigation into two Polish priests, one of whom was the Vatican envoy to the Caribbean country, officials said Wednesday.
The case of the envoy is likely to test the Vatican’s readiness to take legal responsibility for one of its own. The Holy See recalled the envoy, Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, on Aug. 21, and removed him as apostolic nuncio after learning of the allegations.
Dominican authorities have not asked for any assistance from Poland for their investigation into Wesolowski or the Rev. Wojciech Gil, 36.
The Vatican said it was cooperating with the Dominican investigators. Still it refused to reply to repeated questions asking about Wesolowski’s whereabouts, his reaction to the accusations, or whether he had a legal representative to respond to them.
The Rev. Robert Necek, the spokesman for Poland’s Krakow diocese, referred all questions to the Vatican.
Poland’s prosecutor general, Andrzej Seremet, has written to Dominican officials, asking for details of their inquiry and whether it revealed any possible wrongdoing on Polish soil, spokesman Mateusz Martyniuk said. Without such information, Poland cannot start its own investigation, he said.
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Also see:
Priest accused of child sex abuse found in Poland
Apology offered for clergy abuse
Poland’s church will not pay abused
"Prosecutors in northern Poland on Wednesday were questioning a woman suspected of killing her three newborn boys whose bodies were found in the family’s freezer."
I thought Poles were anti-abortion.
"Union members protest wage policy
WARSAW — Threatening a general strike, throwing smoke grenades, and blowing whistles, about 100,000 Polish union members marched across Warsaw on Saturday to vent their anger against the government’s labor and wage policies. Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government is losing popularity after raising the retirement age, revising the pension system, and relaxing labor code provisions that allow for longer daily and weekly working hours (AP)."
Solidarnosc against austerity!
Related: Obama Tells Polish Joke
That's not very nice -- and I'm of Polish ancestry!
