During the ceremony commemorating the Soviet aggression of September 17 in Warsaw, President of the Republic of Poland Karol Nawrocki paid tribute to the victims and reminded that the memory of Katyn Massacre is a warning for contemporary generations. He stressed that we must never forget our history.
During the ceremony commemorating the Soviet aggression of September 17 in Warsaw, President of the Republic of Poland Karol Nawrocki paid tribute to the victims and reminded that the memory of Katyn Massacre is a warning for contemporary generations. He stressed that we must never forget our history.
President on the victims of Soviet crimes
In his speech, President Karol Nawrocki emphasized that the heroes of 1939 and 1940, imprisoned by the NKVD in Kozielsk, Starobielsk, and Ostashkov, chose loyalty to the Republic and their values even in the face of death: “They chose honor, they chose loyalty to the Republic. As they knelt over the pits of death, they felt fear, but they also knew that they had chosen freedom in the face of Soviet cruelty and the desire to destroy Poland. That is what this story is about. About the tragedy of the Polish nation as a result of the Katyn genocide committed by the Soviets,” said Karol Nawrocki.
The President recalled that communist ideology from the very beginning proclaimed terror and crime as tools to achieve its goals: “The house of evil, the Soviet Union, began murdering from the very start – both its own citizens and representatives of other nationalities. The house of evil that sought to destroy all of Europe, but was broken in 1920 by the strength of the Polish soldier,” he said.
Nawrocki stressed that Katyn Massacre was an attempt to strip away the nation’s soul: “The Katyn genocide was an attempt to erase the Republic from the map of Europe and the world. But the truth about Katyn survived thanks to the Katyn families, historians, and courageous Poles who refused to be broken,” he emphasized.
He also referred to the words of President Lech Kaczyński: “Just as the Katyn Massacre lie was the foundation of a colonial Poland, so the truth about Katyn must become the foundation of a free, independent Republic. And thanks to you, this is what is happening,” he said.