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The Katyn Forest MassacresIn April 1943 in the forest by Katyn, close toSmolensk, the mass graves of over 4,500Polish officers, murdered with a shot to thenape of the neck, were shown to the internationalpublic. It was one of three crimescenes. At the other two, over 10,000 morePolish officers had been likewise murdered atthe same time. These two sites were only discoveredafter the end of the war. The Westernruling powers knew that all traces of these officersin the Soviet camps Kosielsk, Starobielskand Ostashkov had been lost sinceApril-May 1940, and that the mass murdererswere their Soviet allies. Nevertheless theguilty parties participated in the horror-showof the “Soviet Commission of Inquiry” that wascreated one year later by the Soviets andlasted beyond the Nuremberg “War Crimes”Trials of 1946, and charged the Germans withthis mass crime, ignoring all the proof that hadbeen available in abundance since 1943.Solzhenitsyn referred to them.There were twice as many as these—or even manymore. 99Yet uncounted in all of this are the half-free roamingvagabond prisoners.“The 1,800 Kommandanturas of the NKVD administeredmore than 1,200,000 “special settlers.” 100In two other historical investigations the judgment ofStalin’s “worker and peasant paradise” is as follows:a) “A conservative estimate of the number of arrests inthe years 1937 and 1938 is about 7 million and, if one assumesthat in early 1937 5 million were behind bars orbarbed wire, by the end of 1939 one would arrive at a totalnumber of 12 million had there not been shootings, starvationsand death by exhaustion. About 2 million will havedied off during their detention—and about 10% of the arrested5 million or more were shot each year, which for1937-1938 would produce the figure of around 1 millionkilled by bullets.As we are told by Ronald Hingley in The Russian SecretPolice 1565-1970: “By this calculation, at the end of 1938there must have been about 9 million humans in detention, ofthem 8 million in concentration camps and over 1 million invarious prisons.” 101b) “Thus, over the period of obligatory collectivizationbeginning in 1929 and the carefully planned and organizedhunger holocaust of 1932-1933 that worsened it, and theconcealed genocide of the Ukrainian people, various estimatesand demographic investigations agree that between7 million and 10 million human beings were eliminated.The mass shootings of so-called ‘people’s enemies’ thatbegan in the early 1930s and culminated in the hysteria ofthe ‘Great Purge’ of 1937-1939, robbed yet another 5 to 7million human beings of their life.According to Joachim Hoffman, “and about another 1million people died as a result of the annexation of easternPoland and the Baltic republics between 1939 and 1941.” 102Hoffman adds, “The mortality rate stayed enormous inthe 80 big concentration camp complexes and the “hundredsof single camps.” Just in the concentration camp ofKolyma [in far northeastern Siberia], at least 3 millionhuman beings perished from the terrible living conditionsand temperatures as low as -60 degrees C.” 103A sum total of 40 million Bolshevik terror victims1917-1941 is now generally considered realistic.Solzhenitsyn tells us, however,“by the computations ofthe emigrated statistics professor Kurganov, this ‘relativelylight’ suppression that ran from the beginning of the OctoberRevolution through 1950 cost us [Russians] about66 million human lives.” [GULAG Archipelago, p. 37]“In the year 1939 there were 8.5 million Soviet citizens,or 9% of the adult population of the USSR in concentrationcamps and prisons.” 104“This can be said with certainty: on the eve of the warwith Germany (1941), 20% of the work performed in theSoviet Union was forced labor.” 105✦T B R • P. O . B O X 1 5 8 7 7 • W A S H I N G T O N , D . C . 2 0 0 0 3 T H E B A R N E S R E V I E W 25