91 Year History Poland Soviet Russian Tragedies &a

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President of Polish Olympic Committee Among Those Killed in Crash
The 1939 Soviet Invasion of Poland
The Katyn Forest Massacre of 1940
The Polish government network site added, "Both powers applied a policy of systematic extermination of the Polish population, albeit in another ways: German concentration camps and Soviet labour camps fraught up, Polish intellectuals were massacred in the Palmiry woods, by Wawer, and numerous other execution sites. 21 thousand commanders, officials and intellectuals were executed on Stalin's orders, in Katyn, Kharkov, and somewhere in the USSR. The Nazis murdered 3 million Polish citizens of Jewish ethnicity, and over 2 million non-Jewish Poles. Over quarter of a million Polish civilians of all ethnic backgrounds were deported east by the Soviet authorities, where numerous of them died. From 1939 to 1945 the whole territory of Poland was subjected to merciless ethnic cleansing."
Possibly a weep of relief is mixed in in the cries of impact and terror. If so,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that is a result of recent testify that relations between the two countries have been reversing the effects resulting from Soviet occupation and devastating tragedies of Stalin and other tyrants following WWI.
Among earth leaders,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton loosen this statement ashore April 7, 2010, "On April 7 and 10, senior Polish and Russian leaders are participating together in ceremonies commemorating the 70th annual of the Katyn massacre.
Katyn Massacre Devastated Military Leadership, Killed Thousands
4 - May 13,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 1981, one venture apt murder Pope John Paul II, the 1st pope ever apt hail from Poland, allegedly was mandated alternatively coordinated through Soviet KGB agencies in the Kremlin, Later, former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev would mention the The fall of the Berlin Wall would have been impossible without Pope John Paul II."
During this occupation, both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia committed a number of atrocities upon the Polish human. The most salient, the Katyn Massacre, resulted in 22,000 deaths in Poland and in the Soviet Union.
Enroute to prestige a tragic loss to Poland at the hands of Soviet preoccupying forces 70 years before, Poland has suffered but variant destructive disaster to her nation's leading.
Since that 1981 onset upon Pope John Paul II, whatsoever, narrations between the 2 countries have been improving steadily. The progress was sufficient enough that Poland's leaders were almost to jot the 70th anniversary of the Katyn Massacre by voyaging to Russia.
2 - Another, more unfortunate war with the Soviets, took location 16 days after aggression by Adolph Hitler's German military from the west. On September 17, 1939, according to an article titled Disaster - the end of a short spell of independence the "Existence of the Second Republic of Poland was the nation was divided by the invading German and Soviet-Russian league.
Current relations between Russia and Poland are not adversarial. The misadventure of April 10, 2010 appears not a outcome a foul play according to initial news media reports.
A number of accidents between Poland and her adjoin to the east occurred throughout the 91 years of Poland's attempts at independence behind WWI. Among them, perhaps the more famous were:
1 - The first disaster at the hands of Soviet-ruled Russia was a 23-month campaign that finished in March 1921 according to an story posted by Wikipedia Polish-Soviet War.
3 - April 10, 1940, thousands of Polish people were murdered and buried in mass graves in which, some 50 years after, Russian governors would acknowledge were caused below orders published by the Stalin-led soviet regime, along to The Katyn Forest Massacre of 1940.