GENOCIDE : Acts committed with
the intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
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| On March 5th 1940 at a meeting of the Politburo, Stalin sanctioned the
murder of 15,000 POWs and 11,000 political prisoners - "hardened, incorrigible
enemies of Soviet Rule" |
| Three years later, Stalin accused the Nazis of the Katyn mass murders.
A lie which the world believed for over half a century and a blank page which
enabled the Soviets to enslave the Polish people. |
| Katyn was only one of many Blank Pages. Of two million Poles deported
to the Soviet Union, hundreds of thousands died from hunger, cold and disease.
Of one million Poles detained in Soviet gulags, 45% perished - " ... under
every sleeper on the railway line to Vorkuta, lies a Pole." |
| Genocide continued even during the 'liberation' of Poland. An NKVD unit
of the Red Army was responsible for the Turza Wood massacre - "...they
followed an established routing, interrogations took place every day except
Thursday, and sentences were read out in the detention compound. On Thursday
nights a lorry took the victims to Turza Wood. The lorry returned empty in
the morning... " |
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"Blank Pages, Soviet Genocide Against the Polish People" This book
has two main aims.
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| It reveals the extent of Soviet genocide. The sheer number of instances
of Soviet genocide made it more practical to use selected examples than to
attempt to paint the full picture. The Soviet terror apparatus is shown in
action, and its capacity for murder as well as its innate ability to obliterate
the traces of crimes committed can be clearly seen. The crimes described
are only the tip of the iceberg. |
| The book also hopes to expose 'blank pages in history', the Soviet technique
of manipulating public opinion so that crimes remained unpunished. That us
the reason why the Katyn Mass Murders, a classic example of blank pages,
still predominate in a work not intended to be yet another book on Katyn. |
| A third, subsidiary aim is to serve as a small compendium on the subject. |
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