Russia shelled the Polish military cemetery near Kharkiv

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One more proof that the Russians are deliberately destroying Polish monuments in Ukraine. Cluster bombs fell on the Cemetery of Victims of Totalitarianism in Kharkiv-Pyatichatki, where Polish officers, murdered by the NKVD are buried.
There are traces of explosions at the cemetery, the cluster bombs has hit plates with the names of Polish officers. One of the missiles stuck in the ground at the foot of the cross.

The Cemetery of Victims of Totalitarianism in Kharkiv-Pyatichatki was built in 1999–2000. It is the burial place of Polish Army officers murdered in the basement of the NKVD building in Kharkiv in 1940. Officers were brought from a POW camp in Starobelsk, where they were held from autumn 1939. The first transport from Starobelsk to Kharkiv set off on the night of April 5/6, 1940.
The bodies of the murdered Polish officers were then transported by trucks to the forest near Kharkiv, where they were buried in pits dug near the NKVD sanatorium.


The Polish War Cemetery in Kharkiv is one of the four Katyn cemeteries, which was first established in 2000 and financed by the Polish state. The remaining necropolises are located in: Katyn (Russia), Mednoye (Russia) and Kiev-Bykivnia (Ukraine).


The Russians also intend to destroy the cemetery of Polish officers in Katyn, only by other methods. They want the Polish part of the cemetery to be demolished. Several communist Duma deputies sent an appeal to the Russian authorities in this effect. The reasons behind the appeal are “the hostile behavior of modern puppet Poland, its Russophobic policy, public support for Nazi Ukraine and the supply of weapons.” The initiators of the appeal are also demanding that the Russian parliament withdraw from the 2010 resolution condemning the Katyn massacre.


One of the initiators, Andrei Szaposznikov from the Communist Party of Russia, a deputy of the Smolensk Regional Duma, emphasized that Russia should not take the blame for a crime that it did not commit. “The Germans are guilty of the execution of Polish officers. We have no historical blame against Poland. It is time to throw this fake into the dustbin of history.”


82 years have passed since the Katyn massacre. The whole world seemed to know the truth about the murderers of Polish officers. Still, there are people in Russia for whom only communist lies are true.

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