{"id":104500,"date":"2021-04-13T10:10:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T08:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upmp.news\/?p=104500"},"modified":"2021-04-13T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T08:10:09","slug":"update-poland-remembers-victims-of-1940-massacre-by-soviets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upmp.news\/en\/ua-in-polish\/update-poland-remembers-victims-of-1940-massacre-by-soviets\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Poland remembers victims of 1940 massacre by Soviets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Poland&#8217;s top officials on Tuesday morning began a day of commemorations to mark the anniversary of the 1940 Katyn Massacre of Polish officers and intellectuals by the Soviets.<\/strong> <strong>It is reported by Upmp.news with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polskieradio.pl\/395\/7784\/Artykul\/2714354,UPDATE-Poland-remembers-victims-of-1940-massacre-by-Soviets\">reference<\/a> to<\/strong> <strong>Polskie Radio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>April 13 is a national day of remembrance for the victims of&nbsp;the World War II mass murders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a special message focusing on the anniversary, President Andrzej Duda said that the Polish&nbsp;officers and intellectuals&nbsp;&#8220;were killed only because they were Polish patriots.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"newspaper-x-video-container\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"pl\" dir=\"ltr\">Prezydent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrzejDuda?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AndrzejDuda<\/a>: Nasza pami\u0119\u0107 o Katyniu jest moraln\u0105 powinno\u015bci\u0105 oraz wielkim zobowi\u0105zaniem do s\u0142u\u017cby Ojczy\u017anie. <br><br>Przes\u0142anie Prezydenta RP z okazji Dnia Pami\u0119ci Ofiar Zbrodni Katy\u0144skiej \u27a1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BwrlcSiGIx\">https:\/\/t.co\/BwrlcSiGIx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/80TJHUvLiF\">pic.twitter.com\/80TJHUvLiF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kancelaria Prezydenta (@prezydentpl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prezydentpl\/status\/1381839903097556993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Preserving&nbsp;the memory of the Katyn crime is&nbsp;our moral duty and obligation and a great service to our country,&#8221; the Polish head of state said in his message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that &#8220;the victims of that crime left a legacy&nbsp;of unshakable, proud patriotism,&#8221; while also inspiring &#8220;generations of those who fought for a free and sovereign Poland.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"876\" src=\"https:\/\/upmp.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_2021-04-13-UPDATE-Poland-remembers-victims-of-1940-massacre-by-Soviets.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-104501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upmp.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_2021-04-13-UPDATE-Poland-remembers-victims-of-1940-massacre-by-Soviets.png 750w, https:\/\/upmp.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_2021-04-13-UPDATE-Poland-remembers-victims-of-1940-massacre-by-Soviets-257x300.png 257w, https:\/\/upmp.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_2021-04-13-UPDATE-Poland-remembers-victims-of-1940-massacre-by-Soviets-685x800.png 685w, https:\/\/upmp.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_2021-04-13-UPDATE-Poland-remembers-victims-of-1940-massacre-by-Soviets-171x200.png 171w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Later in the day, the Polish president&nbsp;is&nbsp;expected to pay tribute to the victims of the Soviet crime at a monument in Warsaw\u2019s Old Town district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the evening, the&nbsp;fa\u00e7ade of&nbsp;his presidential palace will be illuminated to honour&nbsp;those murdered in the Katyn Forest in western Russia more than eight decades&nbsp;ago,&nbsp;one of Duda&#8217;s aides, Wojciech Kolarski, told state news agency PAP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;host of other events&nbsp;are scheduled throughout the&nbsp;nation to observe the memorial day, which was established by the country\u2019s parliament in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to safety precautions amid&nbsp;the coronavirus pandemic, this year\u2019s&nbsp;commemorations&nbsp;are less high-profile than in most previous years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Physical attendance during the day&#8217;s ceremonies&nbsp;has been limited due to social distancing&nbsp;precautions&nbsp;prompted by the COVID-19 health crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8216;Painful symbol of Soviet crimes&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Polish foreign ministry said in a tweet on Tuesday morning that the mass graves of Polish prisoners of war &#8220;in Katyn, Kharkiv, Mednoye, Bykivnia and other locations are a painful symbol of Soviet crimes and attempts at falsifying history.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"newspaper-x-video-container\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Katy%C5%84Massacre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Katy\u0144Massacre<\/a> Remembrance Day, we pay homage to nearly 22,000 ?? POWs brutally murdered by the NKVD in the spring of 1940.<br><br>Their mass graves in Katyn, Kharkiv, Mednoye, Bykivnia and other locations are a painful symbol of Soviet crimes and attempts at falsifying history. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pP8PH25OxU\">pic.twitter.com\/pP8PH25OxU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ministry of Foreign Affairs ?? (@PolandMFA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PolandMFA\/status\/1381870261276917760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lighting a candle of remembrance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of the&nbsp;81st anniversary of the mass murders, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau honoured&nbsp;the victims at a Polish war cemetery in Bykivnia near Kiev, Ukraine last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"newspaper-x-video-container\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Upon the 81st anniversary of the Katy\u0144 Massacre, FM <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RauZbigniew?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RauZbigniew<\/a> paid tribute to the memory of the victims of the NKVD at the ?? War Cemetery in Kiev-Bykivnia.<br><br>To mark the 11th anniversary of the Smolensk plane crash, Minister laid a wreath at the statue of Anna Walentynowicz. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qKW7hDJoWt\">pic.twitter.com\/qKW7hDJoWt<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ministry of Foreign Affairs ?? (@PolandMFA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PolandMFA\/status\/1380189630474108937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost 22,000 Polish prisoners of war were killed in the spring of 1940 on orders from top Soviet authorities, according to estimates cited by Polish Radio\u2019s IAR news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"newspaper-x-video-container\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u27572\u20e32\u20e3,0\u20e30\u20e30\u20e3 army and police officers, intelectual elites, all of them Polish patriots \u2013 were killed in a matter of just two months. Here\u2019s how the ?? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NKVD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NKVD<\/a> planned and executed this genocidal decapitation of the Polish nation. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KatynMassacre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KatynMassacre<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SovietCrimes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SovietCrimes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWII?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WWII<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Katyn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Katyn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Katyn80?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Katyn80<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kHAkKwqP5w\">pic.twitter.com\/kHAkKwqP5w<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Institute of National Remembrance (@ipngovpl_eng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ipngovpl_eng\/status\/1248876730250678278?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"newspaper-x-video-container\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OTD<\/a> in 1922, exactly 18 years before the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KatynMassacre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KatynMassacre<\/a> started, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Stalin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Stalin<\/a>, the man who signed the order to kill 22,000 Poles in Katyn, became the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. As a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Soviet?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Soviet<\/a> dictator, he introduced terror on an unprecedented scale. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SovietCrimes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SovietCrimes<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i7phYt8EsE\">pic.twitter.com\/i7phYt8EsE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Institute of National Remembrance (@ipngovpl_eng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ipngovpl_eng\/status\/1378258860499214342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, thousands of Polish officers were deported to camps in the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>POWs from camps in Kozelsk, Starobelsk and Ostashkov as well as Poles held in prisons run by the Soviet Union&#8217;s NKVD secret police were among those murdered in April 1940.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"newspaper-x-video-container\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today I pay tribute to the victims of the Katyn Massacre. Let me invite you to join me and light a symbolic candle of remembrance together on the Katy\u0144 Pro Memoria website.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4oWyPM7lHf\">https:\/\/t.co\/4oWyPM7lHf<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KatynProMemoria?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KatynProMemoria<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/zapalswiatlopamieci?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#zapalswiatlopamieci<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JwTDYZG9AK\">pic.twitter.com\/JwTDYZG9AK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Zbigniew Rau (@RauZbigniew) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RauZbigniew\/status\/1380146817527070732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Moscow\u00a0for decades denied\u00a0responsibility for\u00a0the Katyn Massacre, while the topic was taboo\u00a0when Poland\u00a0after the war remained under Soviet control until 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"newspaper-x-video-container\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ironically it were the Germans who discovered the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KatynMassacre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KatynMassacre<\/a>. The nation which was responsible for atrocities in Poland, was the first to spread the news. The Germans used the Katyn murder to demonstrate inhumanity to the world, while at the same committing their own crimes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DH4QSTR2Sl\">pic.twitter.com\/DH4QSTR2Sl<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Institute of National Remembrance (@ipngovpl_eng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ipngovpl_eng\/status\/1381512643316437002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(gs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: PAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland&#8217;s top officials on Tuesday morning began a day of commemorations to mark the anniversary of the 1940 Katyn Massacre of Polish officers and intellectuals by the Soviets. It is reported by Upmp.news with reference to Polskie Radio. 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