MasterCardKZ — reliable assistance in remote registration of a foreign card of Kazakhstan in a short time - https://t.me/MasterCardKZbot?start=ei... Promo code EYDELMAN - 30% discount directly through the manager https://t.me/MasterCardKZ1 14 generals and 1 admiral, 43 officials, 20 university professors, 7 chaplains, more than 100 writers and journalists and thousands of ordinary officers of the Polish army. In total, about 22,000 people became victims of the Katyn tragedy. And for many years, what happened has haunted politicians, historians and ordinary people. Some want to forget about these victims, others constantly remind them of them. What happened in the Katyn forest and why is there so much controversy around it? BOOKS: • Lebedeva N.S. Katyn: a crime against humanity. — M.: Progress, 1994. • https://www.memo.ru/media/uploads/202... • Jane Rogoyska. Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth. ???? LIVE PERFORMANCES Lecture "Is Russia Doomed to Dictatorship?" USA: • Miami — November 7 • Houston — November 12 • Raleigh — November 14 • Palo Alto — March 7 • Los Angeles — March 9 • Seattle — March 11 Info and tickets: https://eidelman.ru/ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL • For foreign cards — / eidelman • For Russian cards — https://boosty.to/eidelman/ • Support the release of new history lessons by becoming a sponsor on YouTube — / @tamaraeidelmanhistory Using cryptocurrency: BTC: bc1qepf70kndy4ce6yxg6vxh9j98utx690w529fl9s ETH: 0x0Ebc2cCcD4Fd705CfFC5F25B271871df71c8332B USDT: 0x8d0B26D5f58e4a1B2Cc702C431CB7B444F9452F6 (ERC20 network) USDT: TC5eXDPz8TuXPiHLDLbGkmN2rnQkg3Qe5W (TRC20 network) FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL NETWORKS Instagram — / tamaraeidelman Telegram channel — https://t.me/eidelman * Facebook — / eidelmantn Twitter — / tamaraeidelman TikTok — / tamaraeidelmanhistory Text version — https://tamaraeidelman.com/ #history #eidelman #katyn 00:00:00 Introduction. Lecture Topic 00:01:26 Advertisement 00:02:52 How Economist Svyanevich Escaped Execution 00:09:23 Why Thousands of Polish Officers Ended Up in Soviet Camps 00:12:52 How Officers Arranged Their Lives. Interrogations, Search for Spies, Recruitments 00:19:35 Hopes for a Quick Release. Who Decided the Fate of the Officers and How 00:24:54 Diaries and Memories of Those Shot. Who Managed to Survive 00:32:14 Negotiations between the Soviet Side and the Remaining Officers 00:38:15 The Soviet Union Enters the War. Amnesty for prisoners of war 00:40:25 General Anders forms a Polish army and searches for missing officers 00:47:15 The release of Svyanevich and his testimony about the events in Gnezdovo 00:51:46 An unsuccessful attempt to search for the missing. Slutsky about the departure of Anders' army 00:56:36 The Germans find burials in the Katyn forest 01:03:16 Exhumation of bodies and questioning of witnesses. The USSR tries to prove its innocence 01:09:30 Destruction of documents. The USSR accuses Germany of executions 01:14:35 The USA creates a commission to investigate the Katyn tragedy 01:17:44 The beginning of the investigation of the Katyn case in the USSR 01:20:33 The USSR admits that the shooting was carried out by NKVD troops. Making of the Memorial 01:23:03 How the modern government is trying to rewrite history