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Katyń Massacre: Adam Aston's & Maurizio Pollini's tribute

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Channel: 240252 · 2010 · Education

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1st recording: Adam Aston & Orkiestra pod dyr. Iwo Wesby'ego - Kilka łez (A Few Tears) Tango (Orzech /Merlis), Syrena-Electro, 1936;
2nd recording: Maurizio Pollini, pianoforte -  Chopin, Etude Op.25 No.12 In C Minor
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NOTE: 70th ANNIVERSARY  OF  KATYŃ MASSACRE
1. The first part of this movie is dedicated to the beloved city of Lwów, whose name makes every Polish heart beat faster. To the tragedy of that happiest in pre-war Poland city of people-in-love, of poets and all kinds of artists, the Semper Fidelis (Always Fidel) city whose fate was so strongly bound with each victory and every fall of Poland for the centuries, like only Warsaw or Cracow could be compared... 
   And, in September 1939 this town was sentenced to death by two gentlemen: Mr Hitler and Mr Stalin. The sentence was soon executed, in 5 years between 1939-45. Unfortunately, during the Conference in Yalta  -which seemed for a while the last chance of the rescue for that town- the delagates of the Free World, Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill did not do more than once,  2 thousands year ago, in Jerusalem, did someone called Pontius Pilate: they quickly said "yes, yes" and washed their hands as soon as Stalin demanden Lwów as his war trophy for the Soviet Russia. 

2nd Part of the clip: Today, passes the 70th anniversary of Stalin's order given on the 5th of March, 1940 to Beria and distributed immediately among NKVD officers attending the camps in Katyń, Miednoje, Ostaszków and all other places in Russia, where 22,000 Polish officers captured by Red Army in September 1939, after the Russian invasion on Poland, were kept. These soldiers were the cream of the cream of the Polish society: engineers, lawyers, doctors, university professors, artists and all kinds of  intellectuals. They were not war prisoners, for  Poland never declared war with Soviet Union. They were solely victims of their neighbour's agression on their country and in nSeptember 1939 they fought against Nazis, not Soviets. Therefore, no legal reason existed, why they were captured, improisoned, to say nothing of later executed, under an absurde accusation of being "the Soviet enemies". Well known is Stalin's justification he wrote in his order:  for him "these  Poles" were "100 percent irrepairable anticommunists" so  "the only righteous solution for the Soviet Russia is to eliminate them".

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