The Katyn massacre was compared to “fakes” about Bucha

The scientific director of the Russian Military Historical Society, Mikhail Myagkov, believes that the Katyn massacre and the killing of civilians in Bucha are similar, and the Ukrainian media use the same methodology as the Nazis to spread “fake news.” He stated this in a conversation with TASS.

The director of the Russian Military Historical Society believes that the events in Katyn and Buch are similar “in their provocative essence.” According to him, the only difference is that during the Second World War, provocations were carried out by the Nazi regime, and during the war in Ukraine - by the “Kiev neo-Nazi regime.”

“The provocations that the Kiev regime is carrying out today, such as the provocation in Bucha, when they deliberately planted corpses, brought in correspondents, launched information propaganda - this is very similar to what the Germans did in Katyn. They also planted corpses, they also brought in a controlled international commission, and there were dozens of journalists who, under the control of the Germans, covered and propagandized all this,” Myagkov said.

On April 11, the FSB Directorate of the Smolensk Region declassified documents that allegedly spoke of the falsification of the Katyn case. According to TASS, the documents contain information that Polish prisoners of war were shot by German soldiers, and not by NKVD officers.

One of the published documents states that “the Germans carried out intensified provocative propaganda among the Poles, aimed at aggravating the relationship between the Poles and the Soviet government.”

In 2010, Putin, who was then prime minister, said that Soviet citizens who fell under Stalin's repressions, as well as captured Polish officers shot by order of 1940, and Soviet soldiers shot by the Nazis, died in Katyn.

According to Kommersant, the USSR admitted responsibility for the execution of Polish officers only on the eve of its collapse. Then TASS published a message in which it laid the blame on People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Lavrenty Beria. Prior to this, the Soviet government called reports about the execution of military personnel in Katyn “vile fabrications of the Nazi executioners” and attempts to “inflate the slanderous fabrication of Goebbels’ propaganda about the so-called Katyn affair.”

In 1992, Boris Yeltsin declassified the 1940 order to shoot the Poles, as well as a note from KGB Chairman Alexander Shelepin addressed to Nikita Khrushchev. In it, Shelepin recommended destroying the affairs of the Poles, since, according to him, they were of no historical interest.

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