Those insights  Yulia Latynina gives in the " Great game" of power and money, raw materials ,today in Europe will sure mature to real knowledge of a kind, we´ll waite...and see, the following days, but...

Lech Walesa  :  Soviet killed the polish elite, today died the polish elite on its way to...

Putin soft on the Poles...? 

But the word " the Polish elite" , is used very frequently, today,  let´s  look at it more close. Poland of 1939 consisted of lots of minorities, jews, ukraines, and belorussians, about 35 % of the Polish nation, (10-12 millions) in the territories in the East.  Most were conquered by force in the polish-russian/ bolshevik wars during 1920/21. when Pilsudski´s legions even striked to Kiev in Ukraine, and far beyond the wellknown Curzonline / Brest in spite of the west´s Versailles-conference (1919),protests.

These huge figures of minorities didn´t live  well in Poland. All living  in these areas know how hard the Polish police treated these peoples, they were forbidden to use their language, get  higher education, and was raided during  the 1930ties by polish cavall-ery, and punished severley, whipped up, and taken in custody. The poles  destroyed the peasants villages and farms, stores, librarys, public co-op. locals,  if they were protesting, or acted in any way with resistance  against the polish regim = ( like put fires on hay-stacks.)  

They lived more or less in a polish colonialsystem in the periphery, and Poland wanted even to get foreign colonies in Africa, and push her jews out of the country, if possible. Poland´s  35 % of  second class citizens, with very small possibilities to have a voice  in the parliament, often got smaller, mini-landlots than the polish settler, or nothing, at all. Why aren´t this eastern people of Poland taken in account ? 

How many of the victims of Katyn were of jewish,belorussian, ukrainan origins, or other people.  Presumable no one,  because of , Poland  was not democratic, "one-big-family" , multinational in reality,  as we use to believe, and had showed here.

Presumable, ironic,  wasn´t  the Soviet Red army a more generous mix of different nat-ionalities ?  Compared with  the Polish army, and RA did not discriminate jews  as such. So when media and scholars talking of the " polish elite", they buy a picture, that today don´t seem  quite modern.

Poland, its society and its army was more of a apartheid system, a point we tend to forget.  But to face this in west,  it must face and  understand Poland´s  violent regime and expansion in the east, those times.  The oppressed  cheering the Red army in september 1939. 

But west preferred myths of their own. And  these large minorities were sure possible capable, themselves, to finished off,  polish landlords, officers and others, by own initiativ for revenge,  due to the polish expansion and repression of 1920-1939. And the Eastern provinces of Poland, became what in the end - caused the Polish defeat in the war, and the following justifications of its borders, to the west, (and in fact a better agricultural position.)

It must have been the World war I, 1914-18,  that initiated the large killings of people in Europe, 60.000 in casualities a day in Westeuropean  trenches, long before the bolsheviks appear, then the Finnish civil war, with executions of around 10.000 , and 10.000 died in camps, 90.000 for a period in custody, 1918, when the old russian general, finnish-swedish Mannerheim took power, must have scared Lenin to nightmares,  just right over the Finnish bay in revolutionary Petrograd, following by the finns,  finish off, around 20.000 soviet, prisoner-of -wars during six months 1941/42.

Some days ago (april 2010) a serbian man were arrested in Sweden,  for alleged warcrimes in Kosova, during the civil war,1999, that released/ took Kosova fr om Serbia. Can it be a simular situation to compare with the polish soldiers of Katyn, who must have to some extents, have participated in the wellknown, polish " pacification" operations in the Eastern Poland 1920- 1939, (a reason Russia later used to explain Katyn)  a warfare that even former German Chancellor Willy Brandt,  describe as sheer violence. The Serbs reacted in Kosova ,on perhaps more historical founded reasons ? 

How many people with foreign antecedentia today, or some generation back, have we today in the " polish elite", that rules, and among those who so tragic perish, now at Smolensk ?  

Swedens goverment and higher officials has a far better mix of people from different nations, most from the Nordic countries, especially Finland, but a woman even from Congo, (N.Sabuni, in a conservative party, but her relatives, were supporters of the wellknown  freedomfighter, P.M. Patrice Lumumba, Antoine Gizenga, the first name murdered by Belgium and CIA, 1960 and who gave name to a university in Moscow those days.  The next year , 1961 United Nations general-secretary, the prominente swede, Dag Hammarskjöld, died in an aircrash in then Rhodesia under mysterious conditions . And the Soviet partysecretary, . N.S. Chrustjev use to be angry in the United nations, at the "cool" Hammarskjöld, who liked to take long walks in the mountains in northern Sweden (fjällen), when Chrustjev were figthing off the 6.th German army at Stalingrad 1942/43.

Many high-influential sweden journalists  had unlim ited access to media, from espec-ially Poland,  Wolodarski, and Zaremba, at the main morningpaper, The Dagens nyheter (The Daily news), and the most pro-polish of them all, the swedish radioreporter , Abra-hamson, The Swedish public radio.

They belong all , no doubt to the " swedish elite ", who could put what-so-ever  in "spin ", if they wish,  but we would never dream of to place them all in an today, lowtech jetliner, the most foggy day of the year, on a trip to the East, to commemorate some old swedish murky showdowns with the Czar Peter at Poltava , around 1709  or so.  

That´s why the polish rulers make  people nervous. They act from most views, quite irrationale  the whole way,  which always is  dangerous. The president and the whole generalstaff, topbrass,  on the same flight, unbelievable, that´s just bad  judgement, what the Poles had to confess, like the russians, the Katynforest. Just two years ago, (2008) twenty polish officers died in an aircrash -  on their way from an airsecurity-meeting.(!)  I aggree with Yulia, these men were driven by sentiments, all the way.

Sweden has lost two high goverment members by violent murder, (PM.Palme 1986/ unsolved /  F.M Lindh 2003) and that must ever not happen again, nothing good emerge from that, but fear, isolation, and distrust. But here Sweden differ in a negative way, from the rest of Europe,as a kind of bananarepublic, most though to a then low qualified security policebureau,  which always is most interested in chasing leftists, kurds, and russian embassy-personal.  A mirror of Russia - or worse ? (But concerning the Palme-murder, the security-police, quite excluded the KGB as convinient perpetrators,  from start, of some for swedes very unusual and to this day unknown reasons. It seems today more like a modern Mossad-type, team-based operation, as in Dubai, but, before the celltelephone- and tv-monitoringsociety.)

But the two years before Katyn, 1938-39,  Poland, seemed to be caught in a similar misty fog, when they chosed to change and revise  the status quo, in Europe, in spite of being itself  a product of the Versailles- treaty 1919. The polish ultimatum to Lithuania in March 1938, follow the Nazigermanys "Anschluss " of Austria, (when  Poland did not protest, but were informed of it from Göring, col. Beck went to Italy on vacations, to calm the opinion) , perhaps encouraged by Germany. The Soviet Union(Litvinov)  adviced Lithuania to accept, and open all the diplomatic, post/custom-relations, that whas blocked by Lithuania after the Polish Pilsudski-army captured  Vilnius, 1920/23, a state of war.

Litvinov did  to every price, not want any kind of  united polish/german movements to the north in direction to the Soviet Union, as viewed as  a direct security risk. Poland joined Germany in a tight pact in beginning of 1934, and became then a kind of colleague and protector,  for the German rearmaments, during the 1930ties.  Remember then, that France was Poland´s most entusiastic supporter and founder of the polish state 1918, but the poles made common cause with the frenchmens worst enemy - Nazi-Germany, no problems. 

The highest polish official,  Colonel Beck , foreign minister, must have decided that the Sovietunion (M. Litvinov) was of no military threat to Poland, 1938, (during the Great terror).  During the same autumn, Poland again  follow in the Hitler-path, (Sudetenland) and conquer Teschen /Tecin i the northern Czecoslovakia, with a polish minority and important railroads. Poland even trained an special armed subversion,  brigade to attack the Czechs, in the borderareas. Polands aim to   destroy  a democratic Czechoslovakia, one way or the other,  became very destructive for Poland, in the end, sometimes playing the "russian"  card against Berlin, if needed to confuse.

And the Sovietunion accepted again not to act militarily, when the west, London/ Paris sold  Czechoslovakia,, down the river, 1938/39 and strengthend the Polish stand, that the Sovietunion was of no military threat or worth,  what so ever. Poland then thought  that never-ever -  would Germany and The Soviet join in. No, those  two, were just like: "fire and water ."

But what happen during 1939 ? Polen couldn´t solve the Freistadt Danzig-problem, with Germany,  a power they thought they were able to take on -  quite alone, (perhaps with assistance of soviet military equipment, advised by the west. ) The British guarantee in 31 March to Beck, gave the German-Russian pact in Augusth, and the following German assault, took some 14 days to chrush Poland, and suddenly, slow but not hesitating, the Red army moved in  behind the back of the retiring polish army, then routed and out-fought and  the whole polish " elite " , leave the country, without leaders. Hitler never planned to install any polish, Quisling-collaborator, but candidates exist, but polish territory were judge to be too military important, by the germans.

The west didn´t ever thought of daring to make pressure on the polish, like they did the year before with Czechoslovakia, München  the autumn, 1938, and stripped Prague of all of worth, inclusive raw products, the army, borderfortress and at last, the pact with France and Soviet Union. Ten - and out !  And opened the way to  the East,  later hoping that Hitler and Stalin should go to hot war over Poland, 1939 - but what a surprice. But the " right " war broke out the 22nd of june 1941, to most western  leaders belief and relief.

But Poland  underrated the Russians, as always, (or perhaps each other?)  The following Exile-polish military contribution to british/ french plans to attack Russia in Finland, March,1940, with the prime aim to  blockade the Swedish iron ore  and bomb the Luleå iron ore harbour,  from export to Germany (finnish/russian war = peace 13.3.40)  and later in Norway, in  May 1940,  may  have give Stalin and the politbureau a fatal impulse to likvidate the polish officers, but in all a sinister , illegal,serious and rude mistake. 

During the years before, the Stalinist great terror, and purge of the military, the establishment and peasants, nationalists, foreign communists and quite usual poor people, peaked during these years, with perhaps a deathtoll of 700.000 people , the years 1937/38, = 1.000 a day. Many ending up  in distant camps, even if most of this people returned home in the end. 

So the Soviet union was a very dangerous place, those times, for many, but this perhaps wasn´t so obvious to the great part of the soviet population, as one can believe today, but  as a whole - at present , unbelievable figures, and processes.

But  all the  Soviet casualities during the Great Patriotic war, took more than thirty (30) times those figures, and everything became ruins, but scholars say, "Stalin begin with a simple plough and ended up as a nuclear superpower."

One reason,   why all the nations in The Grand alliance (4)  from 1941-45, join in the parade at Red square, The Victory day, May 9th. Europe and its heritage.

There definitely is something connected between these two things. 

I was trying to analyse and make some brainstorming about this subject and then I put down 20 points what seems quite suspicious for me to call this just an accident. I am sure Katyn is involved as well. 

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Only when one looks at a montage of photos of the 96 Polish leaders killed in the plane crash at Severnyi air base does one realize that the accident could not have achieved a more thorough decapitation of the Kremlin's opponents in the Polish government and in Eastern Europe than it did.

As suggested by hard questions asked at the blog Analyst Bluepapers, this is not whether a conspiracy killed a mass of high officers and leaders of Russia's neighbor, but whether it is excusable to fail to investigate to rule out political violence in a country with a heavy record of it for the past century, intensified in recent years. Much of it has happened under Putin. A bevy of dead journalists, dissidents and enemies of Putin: notables such as Forbes' Paul Klebnikov; Novaya Gazeta's Anna Politkovskaya; Alexander Litvienenko; and hundreds more journalists, business persons, activists and political opponents, so many that it is difficult to imagine one honest investigation or press report coming out of Russia.