Evaluation of Sources The two important sources used for this investigation were 1. Death in the Forest‚ The story of Katyn Massacre by J. K. Zawodny (1971‚ Macmillan and Co Ltd) This book was first published in 1962 in California. The author J.K. Zawodny was an associate professor at University Of Pennysylvania and is of Polish origin. As stated by him in the preface‚ his aim was to reconstruct the details of the Massacre and establish who killed the men. The book makes extensive use of primary
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Wajda’s film‚ Katyn‚ has a remarkable way of delivering the insight of the Katyn Massacre to the viewers. The stories of each characters were told in different perspectives‚ which I thought was quite intriguing because they were all fairly tied to one another. Straight off the bat‚ the opening of the film introduced the separation of Anna and her husband‚ a Polish Officer‚ Andrzej‚ which really hinted the initial issue at the time. Officers were separated from others and were set to deport. The progression
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The Katyn Wood Massacre (1940) remains a topic of interest as it questions the motives behind the hidden agenda of the USSR. The truth behind the massacre was hidden for more than fifty years‚ while the USSR upheld the guise that the Germans were responsible for the massacre. It is theorized that both the USA and Great Britain were aware of the massacre at the hands of the USSR‚ however‚ they protected the USSR as she was an allied force and they needed her aid. This poses the question of whether
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Sterio‚ M. (2012). Katyn forest massacre: Of genocide‚ state‚ lies‚ and secrecy. Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law‚ 44 (3)‚ 615-631. Introduction Katyn Forest‚ a wooded area near the village of Gneizdovo outside the Russian city of Smolensk‚ was the scene in early 1940 of a wholesale killing by the Soviet NKVD (Narodny Komissariat Vnutrennykh Del)‚ or secret police. The soviets targeted over 22‚000 Polish intelligentsia—military‚ officers‚ doctors‚ engineers‚ police officers
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5 to 7 million peasants. The Great Purges (1937- 1938) were Stalin’s attempt to remove any threats to the communist party continuance. Many people were killed or imprisoned each year. Numerous massacres occurred like the Vinnytsia Massacres‚ the Katyn Forest Massacre‚ and The Medvedev Forest Massacre. (Pierpaoli‚1) These genocides happened all over the Soviet Union. Within the Soviet Union was Moldova‚ Estonia‚ Latvia‚ Lithuania‚ Kazakhstan‚ Kyrgyzstan‚ Tajikistan‚Turkmenistan‚ Uzbekistan‚ Russia
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Europe up into ‘spheres of influence’‚ e.g. Tehran‚ 1943‚ Percentages Agreement‚ 1944. Discuss how tensions over Poland intensified Stalin’s need to create friendly states in Eastern Europe‚ i.e. Soviet massacre of Polish officer in the Katyn‚ Forest‚ 1940 and Red Army refusal to help Warsaw Uprising‚ 1944. Block 2 Discuss Western hypocrisy over British and French appeasement of fascist dictatorships in the 1930s and American support of Greece and Turkey in 1946‚ as justification for
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points were anti-bolshevism – this theme was used to scare the German people with the threat of a soviet invasion through reports of the atrocities carried out by the red army troops‚ including rape‚ murder and even the massacre of polish officers at Katyn to generate an atmosphere of fear and hatred towards the USSR so that the people would support the war effort through a sense of patriotism and vengance. Although anti-semetism had always been a part of Nazi propaganda‚ the anti-Jewish campaigns acted
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Genocide Convention Essay The genocide convention was an act organized by the United Nations on December 9th‚ 1948 to prevent the crime of genocide and to declare it to be considered a crime under international law. Genocide is the killing of a large group of people based on their ethnicity (The Dictionary). Any acts committed to destroy‚ in whole or in part‚ a national‚ ethnical‚ racial‚ or religious group is the definition of genocide under the convention & that genocide‚ conspiracy to genocide
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“Assess the significance of the Truman Doctrine for the origins and development of the cold war” The Truman Doctrine was significant to the origins and the development of the cold war between 1945 and 1991 as it had many effects on the Ideologies of Communism and Capitalism‚ the Sphere of Influence and Universalism. Other significant events that helped shape the Cold War were the three big war conferences‚ which were the Yalta‚ Tehran and the Potsdam all of which were attended by the big three
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Joseph Stalin dominated the soviet scene to a degree unequaled in the United States by Truman or even Roosevelt. Stalin was born in the Russian empire’s southern province of Georgia in 1879. He began studying for the priesthood but was thrown out of seminary for revolutionary activity and some believe because of laziness. After the 1917 Bolshevik revolution he climbed to prominence in the new ruling communist party thanks to his administrative skills and adroit political maneuvering and building
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