Katyn: Stalin’s Massacre and the Triumph of Truth - Softcover

Paul, Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0875806341 ISBN 13: 9780875806341

Verlag: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010

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Book by Paul Allen

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"A moving reconstruction of the human side of these events... the volume is especially valuable in its tracing of individuals and families through the barbarous darkness of the 1940s." - The New York Times"

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Marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn Forest massacre, this edition exposes the crime and its cover-up. Twenty years ago, Allen Paul wrote the first post-communist account of one of the greatest but least-known tragedies of the 20th century: Stalin's annihilation of Poland's officer corps and massive deportation of so-called 'bourgeoisie elements' to Siberia. Today, these brutal events are symbolized by one word, Katyn - a crime that still bitterly divides Poles and Russians. Paul's richly updated account covers Russian attempts to recant their admission of guilt for the murders in Katyn Forest and includes recently translated documents from Russian military archives, eyewitness accounts of two perpetrators, and secret official minutes published here for the first time that confirm that US government cover-up of the crime continued long after the war ended. Paul's masterful narrative recreates what daily life was like for three Polish families amid momentous events of World War II - from the treacherous Nazi-Soviet invasion in 1939 to a rigged election in 1947 that sealed Poland's doom. The patriarch of each family was among the Polish officers personally ordered by Stalin to be shot. One of the families suffered daily repression under the German General Government. Like thousands of other Poles, two of the families were deported to Siberia, where they nearly died from forced labor, starvation, and neglect. Through painstaking research, the author reconstructs the lives of these families including such stories as a miraculous escape on the last transport of Poles leaving Russia and a mother's daring ski trek over the Carpathian Mountains to rescue a daughter she had not seen in six years. At the heart of the drama is the Poles' uncommon belief in 'victory in defeat' - that their struggles made them strong and that freedom and independence, inevitably, would be regained.

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• Verlag: Northern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0875806341
• ISBN 13: 9780875806341
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 430