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Jim Wald

5 months ago

Jim Wald
5 months ago

13 April 1943: Nazis announce discovery of 1940 Soviet massacre of #Polish troops at #Katyn.The postwar Polish communist regime had to insist it was a Nazi crime. Only following 1990 Soviet admission of guilt could honest commemorations begin

2008 display, memorial Kraków

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a memorial cross at night, on the little plaza where the display was erected

black cross labeled Katyń 1940
small candle at base
background, low tan stucco wall, church in background

Large street panel display

at top in red KATYŃ
at right, a map of the occupied territory with a red star denoting the communist USSR and crosses marking massacre sites

at left photographs involving the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939, which made the Soviet invasion of eastern Poland and subsequent massacre and other crimes possible; photos of Stalin, Molotov, Ribbentrop etc.

#polish #katyn

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