2010-11-24 14:02
Press office of the CPRF faction – kprf.ru
To the President of the Russian Federation
D.A. Medvedev
Dear Dmitry Anatolyevich!
In early December this year you will pay an official visit to Poland.
There is no doubt, that during the discussions about the interstate relations the Polish side will once again raise the so-called "Katyn issue", once again re-activated by western politicians in order to discredit the Russian people and to diminish the role of the Soviet Union's victory in World War II. In addition, referring to the "Katyn case" has quite a specific task - to create a fertile ground for compensation claims against our country for the shooting of the Polish "elite of the nation."
Despite the existence of irrefutable facts that disprove the conventional version of the shooting of 22 thousand Polish POWs by members of the NKVD of the USSR, attempts are being made in order to achieve recognition of this crime as genocide, with consequent presentation of claims to Russia about damage compensation to Poland in an amount currently exceeding more than 100 billion euros. There are already more than 70 lawsuits from the relatives of the murdered Poles present in the international court in Strasbourg, and there is no doubt that their numbers will grow.
Given the above, we express our hope, that during the upcoming visit to Poland our delegation will stand firm and will defend itself from being pulled into a discussion of this issue, which once again will be wittingly used in anti-Russian purposes.
As a counterbalance, we consider it possible to raise before the Polish side the question of clarifying the fate of 130,000 Red Army soldiers, who fell into Polish captivity in 1920. According to existing information, more than 80,000 people died from brutal treatment, hunger, mass diseases and executions, something that Poland, as we know, does not want to admit. Russia has the right to request permission to raise on their territory a monument to the victims of Polish terror, similar to the monument, that was raised to the Poles in Katyn.
Sincerely,
On behalf of a group of Russian scientists - members of the Public Commission about Katyn
Vice-chairman of the Committee of the State Duma
for Constitutional Legislation
and State Construction,
Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Professor
V. I. Ilyukhin.
Source: http://kprf.ru/international/84930.html
