On RBN's article "No refuting ... the Soviet Story"

[RoaminLam]

[Posted on RBN, 5 Feb '10, in response to information contained in an article touching on topics of interest to members of the Info Underground.]

This article contains at least two grossly inaccurate assertions. While they are probably not intended to mislead, they are characteristic of the kind of sloppy information that's put out in forums like this and then gathers momentum as it makes the rounds.

(1) "20,000 Polish reservists" were **not** shot by the Soviets at Katyn Forest. The decomposing corpses of about 4300 Polish officers **were** disinterred, under Red Cross auspices, after being discovered at Katyn by the retreating Germans in the spring of 1943. Interestingly, at least according to Allen Paul's superb monograph Katyn, soon to be reissued, several hundred of these men were Polish Jews, including one general and the Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army. According to the eminent British historian Norman Davies, the total number of Polish elites murdered by the Soviets in this operation -- including reservists, nearly a thousand medical doctors, Olympic medalists, etc. -- runs to about 26,000. Katyn was but one of several locations where this particular piece of "wet work" (mokraya robota) by Stalin's henchmen was accomplished.

(2) In pointing to the Nazi's liquidation of millions of pieces of "human trash like Jews, Serbs, Gypsies, even Scotsmen," mention is omitted of, by far, the **two largest** categories of human beings so designated. Again, the eradication from memory is probably here, and in most cases without doubt, not intended to mislead or cover up; it's just mindlessly replicated, like so much else. But it's remarkable for its near ubiquity. You almost never hear the following two groups mentioned, at least not in our English-language, mainly US forums:

(A)   The overwhelming majority of genocided civilians in WW II, i.e., people who were murdered because of their ethnic or religious identity, were Christians -- Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant, in descending numerical order, but also many people of Christian derivation who had left the faith. This applies to victims of both the Nazis and the Soviets.

(B)   The overwhelming majority of genocided civilians in WW II, not to mention military deaths, were Slavs – not only Serbs, as this article states, one of the smaller Slavic nations, who were in fact cruelly tormented, but also the much larger Polish, Russian, Byelorussian and Ukrainian nations each lost (a conservative) ten percent or more of their population during the war, due to ethnic cleansings carried out by both the Nazis and the Soviets, with their finest people being heavily overrepresented among those lost. This was not by accident.

The implications for us today are chilling, for the real engineers of this unimaginable bloodletting were never brought to justice, or scarcely yet even properly identified. As the readers of forums like this may be aware, we are only beginning to work out where the lines were really drawn, and who was really doing what to whom. It appears that the descendents of these psychopathic killers are firmly in control of America today, along with pretty much all of the rest of the world. Nor did the war and ethnic cleansing actually stop with the end of WW II; it merely shifted from Europe to other venues.

If the tragic trajectory we're on is ever to be altered, unlikely as that may look from where we sit, one of the prerequisites is certainly an exponential growth in our willingness or ability to think, speak, write and exchange ideas with clarity and calm. However much of a breakthrough this article may reflect, in terms of its radical shift from long-held mainstream and official misrepresentations, the glib inaccuracies it perpetrates render its real value close to nil.

Truly, much is rising to the surface these days, and the progress is exhilarating. But in our eagerness to pass this new learning along, we must take care to restrain our enthusiasm ... with a view to being impeccably precise in our diction and our facts. Lacking a profoundly sober integrity, the ferment that's taking place in crucibles like this can never distill a pure elixir of simple decency and justice which most of our readers, being persons of active good will, are so ardently thirsting for.

[VoltaXebec]

Pity you didn't post the link, would have saved me some time http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=6594