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America 'Hid Russia's WW2 Massacre'

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 America deliberately helped Russia cover up one of its most infamous Second World War atrocities to gain favour with Stalin, new documents suggest.

 

More than 22,000 captured Polish officers and other prisoners were systematically murdered in the Katyn forest on the western edge of Russia in 1940.

 
Three years later American prisoners of war sent secret coded messages to Washington with news of the massacre after seeing rows of corpses in an advanced state of decay in the forest, proof that the killers could not have been the Nazis who had only recently occupied the area.
 
Their testimony 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. The long-held suspicion is that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not want to anger Russian leader Josef Stalin, an ally whom the Americans were counting on to defeat Germany and Japan during the war.
 
Documents now released lend weight to the belief that suppression within the highest levels of the US government helped cover up Soviet guilt. The evidence is among about 1,000 pages of newly declassified documents that the United States National Archives is releasing and putting online. 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 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.
 
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.” 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.



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    • Anonymous

      By RRR. SEPTEMBER 11th, 2012 Tuesday, 6:55 P.M. EST.

      Working to do wicked, bad and evil programs only harvests what is planted.
      With minds that depopulate and depopulate again of their own nothing good can be expected not even for their own.
      The Stalin era left 33 million dead and terminated and to kep things quiet then Joseph Stalin terminated many of his own terminators. That’s in the Internet historic writings.
      While fighting Nazi Hitler the Russians lost some 20 million troops and if it was not for America and allieds then Russia would have been speaking German.
      The German SS killed 90 thousand Russians and captured 10 thousand in just one battle.
      It is also true that Japan lost 100 thousand troops against Russia in inner mongolia.

      War spoils and kills good people and very bad people as well.
      GODYHWH makes it rain for the good and the bad to learn to become good people.
      THE END with Peace and Prosperity makes sense.

    • Anonymous

      Atheist govenments have killed more people than all religions put together.

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