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KATYN
1940, Russia: The Katyn massacre in the forest near the village
Gnezdovo, a short distance from Smolensk. That thousands of
Polish officers were murdered there was a fact that was clear to
everybody, above all to Stalin, Berija and all their accomplices,
including "Marshall" Voroschilof and a certain Anastas
Mikojan, an Armenian who was one of the most cruel and irresponsible
creatures of the Stalin period. Absent were Kalinin
(whose name is still used in the designation for the ancient city
of Konigsberg) and Kaganovic, who agreed in writing to the
deaths of a huge number of POWs.
Rudenko
All these facts were quite clear to the Russian chief prosecutor
in Nuremberg, Roman Rudenko.
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It goes without saying that the other prosecutors, first
and foremost the prosecutor-in-chief Jackson, were
fully aware of the atrocities committed by the Soviets,
which outstripped even those of their accomplices the
Nazis.
But in that case the motivation was simply political.
R A PH A E L LEM K IN , one of Jackson's closest advis­
ers, was even better informed about the truth than
any of the prosecutors. And yet he never made the
slightest reference to the atrocities committed by the
Soviets, who had sent literally millions of innocent
men and women to their deaths. "G enocide" to the
nth degree, the exterm ination of whole ethnic groups,
the destruction of the Jew s' very identity. That the
defendants at the Nurem berg Trials did not escape
their just punishment is only one side of the coin. The
other side is the fact that the W estern allies wilfully
cast a blind eye over the atrocities committed by the
Soviets, pursuing a policy which is just as incom pre­
hensible as the attitude of Raphael Lemkin.
Yalta, November 4, 1945. The negotiations at Yalta were not
only concerned with the fate of those millions of Central and
Eastern Europeans who, in the decades following the disintegration
of the old pre-war Germany, were left entirely at the
mercy of the Soviet terror.
Other matters were at stake, such as the responsibility for real
genocides.
Who sat here? Churchill (weary and already powerless),
Roosevelt (terminally ill), and a savage barbarian by the name
of Dschugaschvili, "the man of steel", better known as Stalin.
In the second row, behind Stalin to the left, stands Roman
Rudenko.