Vladimir Shargaev: Katyn. On the Question of the History of Mystification.

Yuri Soloponov: This material was the result of a meeting with Vladimir Alekseevich Shargaev in April 2022. The first part of it was placed on the air of Smolensk TV channels and on a number of Internet resources. The second was waiting for its turn, but circumstances decided otherwise. Vladimir Alekseevich. These are your words, your thoughts, your […]

Why did the bulldozers come to the Katyn Memorial?

It was just a hint. Residents of Smolensk on Sunday, April 10, drove bulldozers and dump trucks to the Katyn Memorial in the Smolensk region. This place is sacred to many Poles, as Polish soldiers and officers were shot here during the war. “We want to declare that we respect your burials, your shrines located […]

Scientific and Practical Conference, June 3.

On the day of the end of the 20-month siege of Smolensk by the Polish invaders, representatives of the Military Historical Society, the Reconciliation Foundation and youth organizations gathered on Vladimirskaya Embankment. Dmitry Samokhvalov, the Chairman of the Smolensk branch of the Russian Military Historical Society, addressed the audience. Dmitry Samokhvalov, the Chairman of the […]

Anatoly Wasserman. “Katyn massacre” and the heirs of Goebbels.

Is “Katyn massacre” a terrible episode of history or a fabricated tool of discredit? What was real, and what is a politically biased myth? And what do the heirs of Goebbels have to do with it? The answers to these and many other questions are in the Radio Sputnik author’s program of Anatoly Wasserman, the publicist and deputy […]

Katyn Schism.

The desire of the West to weaken the authority of our country even brings to the surface old divisions that arose decades ago. In the Katyn tragedy, which any enlightened person knows today, there are proven and controversial facts. The mass execution of captured Polish officers is generally recognized. But there is uncertainty about the […]

Katyn is a Lie That Has Become History.

On August 25, 1993, Boris Yeltsin, the Russian President, saying the words: “Forgive us,” laid a wreath at the monument to the victims of Katyn in Warsaw. After that, the governments of Russia and Poland agreed on the construction of memorials in Katyn and Medny. It seemed that a step towards each other had been […]