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a recap of our main headlines. it's a day of mourning in russia's republic of what north ossetia after a car bomb tore through a crowded market in its capital killing seventeen and injuring more than one hundred. words of warning president medvedev says pohlmann true democracy could be a catastrophe for russia as he speaks of the second day of the yellow slobo international forum. and the un diverse array of nine eleven r.t. investigates why so many americans are converting to islam despite the extreme reaction by some people against it. well more on top of there with kevin and on the up next our special report the cuts in the former. gained infamy long before the polish president died there in a plane crash. thousands of polish military officers were executed in. forces

a special report reveals the truth behind the lies that have shrouded the case for decades that's next. for decades this incident was rooted in speculation and fit the facts were either suppressed or cooped up in one nine hundred forty more than twenty thousand polish prisoners of disappeared and still be a territory without a trace of censorship control and accounting case in general under a strict ban. catchin forest in the smolensk region this is where a mass grave of people in polish military uniform was first discovered that was in one thousand nine hundred three during the german occupation. the poles lay their

graves in three or four rows side by side some were even layered on top of one another there. who all did the execution of the polish prisoners of war when exactly were they killed one to one witnesses have to say about it off the more than fifty years of silence why would the details of the captain tragedy kept secret for so long. in russia's northwest flight among a straight on an island in lakes and again in nine hundred forty it housed the prison camp where more than five thousand polish on the servicemen and police were imprisoned. for his compound was just a child at the time. she found out how the mona street had been turned into a prison camp for prisoners of war from

a relative who was serving in the soviet even in secret police the n.k.v.d. . raging every day a special train was coming to the city a moustache gov should you put the polish prisoners of war barely had any roof over their heads is there for all. all of them on a street buildings were hastily adapted for their accommodation triple plank beds were made for that purpose. polish prisoners of war were brought to the soviet union soon after the start of world war two german troops had altered by poland in the autumn of nineteen thirty nine and so obvious entered the country's eastern regions the poles were sent to prison camps in stara belts and cars outside. the poles were held in order to prevent any potential riots or attempts to restore poland's territorial integrity among them was career officer. the father of polish

film director j. vida yeah coleman his fellow on the servicemen were sent to the camp in the smolensk region to feel that it was a few that i mean unlike my father most of those taken prisoner when not korea offices rather they represented the polish intelligentsia. they were university professors high school teachers actors and autists among them. in short all those who had been drafted into the army in one thousand nine hundred thirty nine. in august that year the soviet union in germany signed a non-aggression treaty in moscow which later became known as the molotov rippon troll pact this covert document detailed the partition of eastern europe on september the first nine hundred thirty nine germany attacked poland by september the seventeenth soviet troops entered poland as well this rare footage shows

a joint parade in the town of brest the soviet brigade commander chris shane and general good rianne of germany share a viewing platform the polish army had never ceased to exist. they. needed i never saw my father from that moment on there was no word from him until he. taken prisoner by the soviets. most of the police officers and fronted troops were sent to the stash of camp one of three for polish prisoners of war a dam and built by the poles to link the island to the lakeside still serves as a reminder of that time that the poles stayed for just over six months in april nine hundred forty the first groups of prisoners would then taken to an unknown destination the poles move to the nearby railway station across the frozen ice of lake seven. i knew are there were they were actually very joyous seeing the guards told them that they were being sent closer to the polish border board so that they

could be handed over to the polish government when the time come that i meet your. secret from reporters dostum guards sent to and kev a day headquarters. the prisoners of war are in good spirits it is apparent they have a strong desire to leave the camp ghost train behind are envious of the ones who are about to leave they think they are going home. is proceeding in an orderly manner without incident. isabella sonnier scums because grandfather. worked to the polish prosecutor's office. when soviet troops entered poland on september the seventeenth one thousand nine hundred thirty nine she was arrested after being branded a suspect. when she was put in a p.o.w. camp she had only one opportunity to send a letter that was in late one nine hundred thirty nine years ago once

a week my granny sent to past college to the address of the prison camp my grandad had given her. for some time the past god simply disappeared without a trace. but starting with the spring of one thousand four take the boys sent back the bore the mark address on. nineteen forty three the because between the soviet union and hitler's germany. it was then that secret burials were found in the village of canton near smolensk the german on these medical costs at the bodies of more than four fouls and polish army officers have been found seven ditches and a federalist. they had been examined under the supervision of professor again brooks a well known anthropologist from breast of a city but slater told the international red cross committee about his findings.

written on april thirteenth one thousand nine hundred forty three radio berlin announced that polish army officers and policemen who had been shot and killed by the end of a day in one thousand nine hundred forty the soviets refuted it two days later they claimed that the polish officers had been executed by the germans third in the autumn of one thousand nine hundred forty one for your award. in one thousand nine hundred three dimitri was thirteen years old he's lived in the county in forest area all his life the german authorities took him and many other local people to the exhumation site. dmitri thinks the message was clear. nothing would have happened if the germans had uncovered anything it was a political matter a polish army had been formed insolvent territory so the aim was to show those poles that they had no business fighting on the russian side could see what they've

done you'll be in for it to the wounded. in the polish capital walsall the so-called catalysts began to appear towards the end of spring nine hundred forty three. people queued for hours in front of news stands to read the new names were added to the list every day. when they still have said that the name of my grandad appeared on one of the lists shortly after such an estate were made public and then gin my father often said he remembered the day when hello and that he had become an orphan after his father's death and his mother's death six months before. in late one nine hundred forty three soviet troops drove the germans out of the smolensk region soon another medical commission this time led by the well known soviet surgeon nikolai but then started work in the canteen sanest its time to find evidence that the polish prisoners had been killed by the germans in nine hundred forty one after they'd invaded the soviet union. when

a german made water pistol was found there that became the main argument in support of the claim that it was the germans that executed the polish officers of the theory that it was the nazis that killed them was based on this discovery when you're. on top of saying is a former political prisoner whose father belonged to lenin's in a circle. he sent up a goon like museum commemorating the victims of political repressions. a friend who worked at the institute of forensic studies told how evidence in the counting case had been faked in the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred forty four. are not the woman was on duty at that time me she saw the remains being hauled out of boxes

and the pockets being stuffed with newspapers and letters bearing falsified dates the aim was to create the impression that all that had happened in one nine hundred forty one rather than in one nine hundred forty in all the evidence it was supposed to demonstrate that nobody but the germans were to blame. around the same time a man hunt was on the way to spot locals who believe that the poles have been executed by the n.k.v.d. needless to say they also met a tragic fate yet if i had believed the russians had killed them i would have been dead for sure. after the soviet medical commission led by the then cook finished its work in one nine hundred forty four a memorial cross was erected in cutting the inscription read polish prisoners of war executed by hitler's troops in one thousand four to rest in peace here among those attending the unveiling were polish on the service because to speak division

who were fighting on the soviet side. delegates in cotton represented various units including my fifth regiment of the second infantry division and everybody said they had no doubt that the crime had been committed by the germans. after the end of world war two poland joined the socialist bloc from then on any discussion regarding canton was to boot. in contrast to the official soviet military link out in people in poland flocked to warsaw to commemorate the. truman who died in captivity relatives of the dead had to hold a memorial services in secret but not any longer. our song for it's in heaven hello do they mean they kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven

this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we think if those who trespass against us the silence lasted nearly half a century many relatives of the executed polish prisoners of war didn't live long enough to learn the secret truth of the count in tragedy. has every month we give you the future we help you understand how will get there and what tomorrow will bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world to join us for a technology update on r g h fifty. fifty fifty. fifty five. the.

if the many he is the most senior economist officials had access to the soviet archives for most of the documents among top secret in one hundred ninety eight president mikhail gorbachev will do this full of containing reports on the counting executions to be removed from the archives and handed over to. the most valuable document is a memo sent to stalin by. the people's commissars of internal affairs in april nine hundred forty. eight stalin the polish prisoners are trying to continue their counterrevolutionary to it is in the camps each of them is only looking for an opportunity to join this struggle against the soviet government then the us is so feels it's necessary it's implied to them as special procedure execution by

a firing squad signed beriah people's commissar of internal affairs of the u.s.s.r. issue. that was the first time that soviet leader. officially declared that the soviet government was to blame. he offered his condolences and gave me a folder of documents containing a lists executed polish officers and asked them to the next day i went to cotton. and paid tribute to the memory of those who were killed. now it was necessary to find the secret graves of the prisoners. the trail led investigators to the town of a stash gulf where one of the concentration camps used to be. there was still a few surviving witnesses to help the team and it was proved once again that in april nine hundred forty the poles were taken away by railroad. and nobody sort of

a life again what is carefree of shareholder shover series were brought here to this railway junction. there were put into boxcars. and taken away in this direction my trains. much later we found out. that they had been taken to the city of colleen in one of. the train journey to kalinin took twenty four hours in one hundred forty the communist official michelle conlin was among other high ranking officials indorsing the execution of the poles. the building standing opposite the monument to kellin in one tells me n.k.v.d. as regional headquarters this is where the lives of the polish prisoners were cut short. more than fifty years later dimitri took around the local n.k.v.d.

was interrogated by investigators from the military prosecutor general's office. after which showed me to the doctor of archive documents proving his guilt realized that it was in vain to deny anything and gave a detailed true testimony. my men didn't shoot more than three hundred people a day only once did they shoot as many that had to be done under the cover of darkness because the nights were now too short. so they brought two hundred fifty people at a time and we shot them during the night. those about to be shot were taken to the basement one by one supposedly to have their papers checked but once there they were stripped of their personal belongings and valuables only then did it occur to the prisoners that they were never going to leave that place a life. one questioned by investigators to me treats all of them the guns used for executions had been brought from moscow. sheen was

the ex superintendent of the central directorate if they knew of and had a trunk full of walter pistols with him if they gave them to the executioners just shortly before the accident then the guns were collected in order to prepare them for more shootings. after the biography of a polish prisoner of war was completely identified two men would take him by the arms and lead him into a cell just like this one the walls of the cells were covered with filth of cloth so obs orban noise the third man fired a shot from a walther pistol at the back of the head of the prisoner. when dimitri tokoroa was interrogated in one thousand nine hundred one he agreed to sketch a route leading to the site where the bodies of executed polish officers had been buried there was a building with seanie and k.

beating officials relaxed talkative dasha all country house was nearby. it's a very place by the riverside. spent a lot of time relaxing here the wives and children of minor officials lived here and large ditches only thirty meters from the houses were filled with thousands of bodies. the technology of covering up traces of mass executions was worked through down to the minute detail but in the polish case uncovered them then had to do their job as fast as they could the bodies of polish prisoners were tossed into large ditches and covered with earth and. the land surrounding what used to be the n.k.v.d. death as in the federici was examined in the summer of one nine hundred ninety one the first horrific finds were uncovered a few days later the investigators job was made easier to to the fact that there is compact clay soil in the region which. doesn't allow air to filter through. the

bodies in that mass graves showed almost no signs of decomposition there was an easily identifiable polish military uniform on some of them others were clad in the uniform of polish police their bodies and arms were almost intact and this is listed fossilized remains. seventy three sixty five bring to downplays. polish forensic scientists joined counterparts in identifying the bodies many of the personal items and papers that once belonged to the dead prisoners were later taken to a laboratory at crackles institute of forensic studies for further examination this job helps me to realize many things when i study all these items glosses lighters cigarette cases i imagine how they lived wrote letters misty play dice and smoke

cigarettes each item reminds of a real person and i start to understand what life in the camp was like. there is a memorial museum in the forest it features documents and accounts of the poles buried here and also of the soviets who died during stalin's reign of terror the death penalty was handed down to more than five thousand people in the callinan region their graves were found side by side with those of polish prisoners. it's impossible to identify the bodies of soviet prisoners soviet they timbs of oppressions were taken to the burial place in underwear or stark naked and later in a bid to cover up their tracks and used a special acid and line to dissolve human remains in the soil. several times a year activists from the med name a memorial complex in northwest russia go on an expedition through villages in the

very known in soviet times as cullinan they meet relatives of the locals who like the poles were executed. these people in the relatives of dead polish offices have something in common. left of them murdered loved ones or a few faded photos. i remember my father saw obs when i saw him in prison. i adored him and he loved me. many years have passed since the relatives of the victims of the repressions were first interviewed gradually historians came to the conclusion that the poles had no chance of escaping death stalin's terror machine was crushing friend and foe alike making no distinction between them and caught in just two cases in point. given that system of government many polish officers and men had no chance of

survival any prisoner discussing poland's future was immediately classified as a suspect at the time of stalin's reign of terror the people of any other nationality would have been dealt with in the same manner if they had found themselves in the same situation. twenty six seventeen years since the execution of the polish prisoners of. a memorial service was held in the county forest on april seventh the ceremony was attended by relatives of the dead and leading political figures. at the palace military cemetery in cotton on april the seventh the prime ministers of russia and poland put an end to ask who was standing nearby my father thought it was a historic moment he's thought it. but marking the anniversary was to take a tragic turn the plane carrying polish president lech kaczynski and many other

senior officials crashed near canton as he tried to land the. relatives of the time prison victims heading for the memorial ceremony that they died along with the president. that was simply incredible family couldn't believe it when tragedy struck again this time on april the tenth two thousand and ten my mother kept saying this can't be true my granddad was murdered and my father was killed in an air crash almost in the same place the two sides are separated by only a few dozen committees. for many in russia the air crash was a personal tragedy for days people brought flowers to the polish embassy in moscow a russian state television channel showed on jay vidas poignant film.

my dear admits he had a hard time making it there was not a single collection of stories about canton for that reason in his works based on memoirs including his mother's recollections of the fine good as a young man in that movie with i'm happy to know that the film caught him has been shown to such a vile story it's war or so that they could evaluate it and hear what a polish film director has to say i'm fine quote all of those who made this possible that this is a good step forward towards reconciliation between us. a stash called at first sight nothing seems to have changed here over the years the great grandchildren of those who saw all the polish prisoners of war now play in the yards. morris carpet is eighty five he's been teaching in the local school of his working life for

a long time he could not share his memories with any of them finally the days come when a documentary about the events of nine hundred forty will be shown on russian television several years ago film director came here in person to listen about how the polish prisoners were brought from the a stash of camp to their place of execution boris became blind two years ago now he can only listen to what the film has to say so what sort of lists are they. they give the names of people taken out of the camp up the city look at sort of people could easily go astray or their families and the army wanted to see if it was you know i keep a diary. and ours don't catch fire no. buttons all that will be left of us is the buttons on our uniforms. under way of course i feel sympathy with john jay wright and the polish people. as.