Post by Jaga on May 8, 2020 22:49:26 GMT -7
this is a sad story showing how nationalism are taking root everywhere around us.
www.polygraph.info/a/katyn-poland-russia/30601790.html
30 Years After Admitting WWII Massacre of Polish POWs, Katyn Memorial Plaques Removed in Russia
On April 7, a group of local activists from the pro-Kremlin National Liberation Movement (NOD) in the city of Tver near Moscow removed two plaques commemorating the 1940 mass execution of Polish POWs from the walls of the Tver Medical University, where the regional branch of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, was headquartered during WWII.
The mass executions were part of what became known as the Katyn massacre, named after the village where most of the 22,000 Polish military officers and intellectuals were killed in April-May 1940.
NOD representative Maxim Kormushkin, who took part in the plaques’ removal wearing a Soviet army-style outfit, told the local Tver News agency that this was “a historic moment.”
“The thing is, while this plaque was placed on the Medical Academy building illegally, without any historical grounds, it … is a historic relic of a sorts because of how many spears were broken by the opponents and supporters of that version. So today common sense finally prevailed, which is supported by historic documents that there were no such executions and so on,” Kormushkin told Tver News in a video posted on its YouTube channel.
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www.polygraph.info/a/katyn-poland-russia/30601790.html
30 Years After Admitting WWII Massacre of Polish POWs, Katyn Memorial Plaques Removed in Russia
On April 7, a group of local activists from the pro-Kremlin National Liberation Movement (NOD) in the city of Tver near Moscow removed two plaques commemorating the 1940 mass execution of Polish POWs from the walls of the Tver Medical University, where the regional branch of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, was headquartered during WWII.
The mass executions were part of what became known as the Katyn massacre, named after the village where most of the 22,000 Polish military officers and intellectuals were killed in April-May 1940.
NOD representative Maxim Kormushkin, who took part in the plaques’ removal wearing a Soviet army-style outfit, told the local Tver News agency that this was “a historic moment.”
“The thing is, while this plaque was placed on the Medical Academy building illegally, without any historical grounds, it … is a historic relic of a sorts because of how many spears were broken by the opponents and supporters of that version. So today common sense finally prevailed, which is supported by historic documents that there were no such executions and so on,” Kormushkin told Tver News in a video posted on its YouTube channel.
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