Post by Bonobo on Jan 10, 2019 21:57:24 GMT 1
Soviets and their Polish comrades for decades refused to admit that Katyń massacre was committed by communists and put the whole blame on Germans. But in Poland they at least tried to keep silent about it because the matter was too obvious due to evidence, while in Soviet Union they resorted to inventing a “new Katyń” called Chatyń in Belarus where a massacre by actually carried out by Germans. The manipulation functioned for a long time in order to distract the world public opinion from Soviet crimes. And even today in Russian schoolbooks there is nothing about real Katyń.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatyn_massacre
Khatyn or Chatyń (Belarusian and Russian: Хаты́нь, pronounced [xɐˈtɨnʲ]) was a village of 26 houses and 156 inhabitants in Belarus, in Lahoysk Raion, Minsk Region, 50 km away from Minsk. On 22 March 1943, almost the entire population of the village was massacred by the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118. The battalion was formed in July 1942 in Kiev and was made up mostly of Soviet prisoner-of-war volunteers, ukrainian collaborators and deserters,[1][2][3] assisted by the Dirlewanger Waffen-SS special battalion.
The massacre was not an unusual incident in Belarus during World War II. At least 5,295 Belarusian settlements were burned and destroyed by the Nazis, and often all their inhabitants were killed (some amounting up to 1,500 victims) as a punishment for collaboration with partisans. In the Vitebsk region, 243 villages were burned down twice, 83 villages three times, and 22 villages were burned down four or more times. In the Minsk region, 92 villages were burned down twice, 40 villages three times, nine villages four times, and six villages five or more times.[4] Altogether, over 2,000,000 people were killed in Belarus during the three years of Nazi occupation, almost a quarter of the region's population.[5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatyn_massacre
Khatyn or Chatyń (Belarusian and Russian: Хаты́нь, pronounced [xɐˈtɨnʲ]) was a village of 26 houses and 156 inhabitants in Belarus, in Lahoysk Raion, Minsk Region, 50 km away from Minsk. On 22 March 1943, almost the entire population of the village was massacred by the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118. The battalion was formed in July 1942 in Kiev and was made up mostly of Soviet prisoner-of-war volunteers, ukrainian collaborators and deserters,[1][2][3] assisted by the Dirlewanger Waffen-SS special battalion.
The massacre was not an unusual incident in Belarus during World War II. At least 5,295 Belarusian settlements were burned and destroyed by the Nazis, and often all their inhabitants were killed (some amounting up to 1,500 victims) as a punishment for collaboration with partisans. In the Vitebsk region, 243 villages were burned down twice, 83 villages three times, and 22 villages were burned down four or more times. In the Minsk region, 92 villages were burned down twice, 40 villages three times, nine villages four times, and six villages five or more times.[4] Altogether, over 2,000,000 people were killed in Belarus during the three years of Nazi occupation, almost a quarter of the region's population.[5