Katýn forest massacre what was almost forgotten.

Tokarev-pistol, what was very popular
in the use of NKVD
(Picture 1)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

The massacre, what was made by NKVD (MGB) in the Katýn Forest, Poland, where this organization liquidated or murdered Polish officers in 1939-1940. The massacre was ordered by the head of NKVD and the reason, why the Soviet authorities were so silent about this particular action, was that those executions were made to cover the Soviet co-operatives identities and some officers who were co-operatives got new identities in that operation.


Some of those traitors might mark as executed in Katýn. The shootings of those officers were done in various places in the Baltic area, and there were stories that they began in the October 1939, and the victims of the executions were stored in the flesh storages, where they NKVD was kept them in cold. When we are seeing the film about this case, we will notice, that younger officer like gives orders to general in charge, and I don´t know how many interviews the filmmaker was made for his documentary films scenes, what was played by actors, but if younger  officer gives orders to general, we might think, that this general have not got very much popularity.


We remember Katýn because those murdered people were officers. NKVD made many more murders, where it was shot ordinary people and none of those victims would not get the memory statues. So is Katýn remembered only because those victims were officers? When we are thinking about the shootings, we must understand that chief of NKVD, general Yezhov was executed after this action. And the order was given by Joseph Stalin, who gave personal orders to eliminate those officers Or this is what Yezhov was claimed. But as we know, this man was a drug addict, who used opiates.


 And this made him the good person for the tool for Stalin, and he was easy to blame, because of his unpopularity. So was Yezhov only the shield, who covered some other man´s crimes, and when he was sent to the grave, there were many people, who would be more guilty than this unpopular man, who is known as the drug addiction and one of the most notorious killers in history. Yezhov was the man, who planned the execution room, and this was the thing, what he was proud. But many people think that Yezhov was too impulsive for plan anything more than next heroin dose.


So who made those rooms, where victims were shot is actually the mystery. When the shootings were done in Katýn there were not used the standard execution patrons, and that´s why the walls of the shooting cabinets were covered by blood and the executioners were walked in the blood, what was the very bad mistake because the prisoners were alerted and that was taken executioners in danger. And maybe some of the executioners were made mistakes, and shot their comrades by an accident when they came backward of the victim, who started to fight at the wrong moment.  If the shooter didn´t use the silencer, could prisoners warned too early, and maybe some of them were too tough for those executioners.


If the shooter were taken some drugs, there might be the situation, where the gun would get by the wrong person, and of course, if the shooter was drunk, that might scare the persons, who kept hold the prisoners, and that might cause the situation, where the prisoner could free himself. Maybe some prisoners managed to escape if they would get the gun of the shooter, and I believe that they would not tell that thing anywhere. But this was only the speculation. But when we are talking about this very bad crime, we must ask one question. How NKVD chose the persons, who were shot in that place? Did they know something, what NKVD didn't want them to know? How those killing lists were made, and who made them?  There were much Polish soldiers in the Soviet army in 1940´s at the war against Germany.

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Only things, what we always remember are bad things

(Picture is taken in Finland)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

When we are trying to remember something, we face the thing, what sometimes distorts and dominates the memories, what has been told and written about some things that happen or what claimed to happen. One of those things is the NKVD, and the second one is the GULAG when we are talking as an example about the Soviet Union. And of course that state made also one war crime, it executed thousands of Polish officers in the place, what is known as Katýn.


The brutal crime and mass murder of Polish officers by orders of the Stalin himself with NKVD:s supreme commanders like Yezhov and Beria. I always thought that the real supervisor of those crimes was Beriya because Yezhov was the drug addict and very good choice for the scapegoat and after this crime NKVD:s most unpopular chief was executed by orders of Stalin, who was blamed Yezhov about the crimes, what he was ordered himself.


That way is common when some gangsters are in the courtroom. The main criminals blame their henchmen about the crimes, what they are ordered, and play some kind of angel, and we can think Stalin as the normal criminal, who just had changed to make the very large scale crimes. The demonization of the criminals makes them look like more dangerous than they are. And if we think that Stalin was the head of the gang, what took the all-state as they area, we might be right. Those men who worked in his secret police were nothing more than murderers who worked under the official authority.


Yezhov was suitable for this kind of operations, because of his addiction he was dependent on the injections and another person. And addiction made him very good perfect mask-man for Stalin and his notorious executioners. Yezhov was sadist and brutal man, who was responsible for many things, but he was easily controlled by the men, who gave him opium. And when he was executed, we must say that he was the perfect enemy of the people.


The remarkable thing about this war crime is that Katýn is remembered only because the people, who were shot were officers. After the Second World War the Soviet Union execution many trials against "the enemies of the people" in the Eastern block of Europe, and none of the victims of those trials have ever remembered. This is the question, what sometimes is under the discussions in some circles, what thinks about morality and the people relationship about morale, and we must establish that in sometimes the victims of the Katýn are remembered because they were officers.


When we are talking about the people who made crimes, we must see that every time in the court of law, there will remember only the bad things about the person, who is prosecuted some crime. And in those situations is visible how some persons forget they own role in the fights. Also, we must notice, that there will be also remembered only the last action, about the fights. That is the problem with police and other investigators. They see just the last thing, what is done in that situation. The things what have done before that fight or some other action, what brought the person in the courtroom as the accused of some criminal activity.


There is a principle in the western court system, that person is innocent until the authorities prove that person is guilty. And if somebody is suspected of a crime, that is the thing, what should not tell other persons. The thing, what will tell to some person that the charges might be raised, are that the person's faces very strong bureaucracy in their life. There will be many double checks in every time when this person makes something, and also there will be found many other things like slow reaction if this person is asking for help