What does it mean to be Polish and smart? Katyn

August 29, 2025

What does it mean to be Polish and smart? Katyn

It is a death threat.

Every generation has a story of when the political elite or the officers and smart people were killed.

Usually they bury them to the same place. Katyn massacre = Zbrodnia katyńska

Source: https://pamietamkatyn1940.pl/blog/polecane-filmy-dokumentalne-i-fabularne/

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

"The Katyn massacre[a] was a series of mass executions carried out by the Soviet Union between April and May 1940 in Poland. Nearly 22,000 Polish military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war were executed by the NKVD (the Soviet secret police), at Joseph Stalin's orders. Though the killings also occurred in the Kalinin and Kharkiv NKVD prisons and elsewhere, the massacre is named after the Katyn forest, where some of the mass graves were first discovered by Nazi German forces in 1943.[2]

The massacre is qualified as a crime against humanity,[3] crime against peace,[3] war crime[3][4] and (within the Polish Penal Code) a Communist crime.[5] According to a 2009 resolution of the Polish parliament's Sejm, it bears the hallmarks of a genocide.[6][7]"

Source: https://dzieje.pl/aktualnosci/zbrodnia-katynska-mija-80-lat-0

Source: https://www.britannica.com/event/Katyn-Massacre

"Katyn Massacre, mass execution of Polish military officers by the Soviet Union during World War II. The discovery of the massacre precipitated the severance of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Polish government-in-exile in London."

The movie:

Katyn. 2007./Drama/History/War/ Full Movie with English subtitle

In 2010, something similar happened...

"There was no plane crash in Poland related to Katyn in 2011; however, the Polish Air Force Tu-154M crash in Smolensk, Russia, on April 10, 2010, is likely what you are thinking of, as the flight was to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Katyń massacre. The plane crashed in heavy fog, killing all 96 people on board, including President Lech Kaczyński. The official investigations by Poland and Russia blamed pilot error and insufficient visibility for the crash, though conspiracy theories alleging an assassination persist. " - AI on Google

"The 2010 Smolensk Air Disaster

Date and Location: April 10, 2010, at Smolensk North Airport in Russia.

Purpose of the Flight: To attend the 70th anniversary ceremony of the Katyń massacre.

Victims: All 96 people on board, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and his wife, died.

Circumstances: The plane was attempting to land in thick fog, which reduced visibility to approximately 500 meters.

Outcome: The aircraft descended too low, struck trees, broke apart, and crashed a short distance from the runway. " - AI on Google