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The Katyń massacre ("zbrodnia katyńska" in Polish) was the mass murder of approximately 22000 Polish nationals carried out by the Soviet secret police (NKVD) in April and May 1940. The massacre was prompted by a proposal (dated 5th March 1940) from Lavrentiy Beria, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union, to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps who had been captured and imprisoned by the USSR during the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. This official document was approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader Joseph Stalin.
As well as approximately 8000 officers of the Polish army, the victims of the Katyń massacre included 6000 police officers and thousands of university lecturers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, civic leaders, politicians, government officials, priests and other members of the "bourgeoisie" who had been targeted for arrest following the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland.
By physically eliminating Poland’s military and civilian elites, Stalin wanted to decapitate the Polish nation and ensure it was less able to resist the enforced Sovietisation of the occupied Polish territories.
The victims were all citizens of Poland, but not all were ethnically Polish - for example, the murdered army officers included Ukrainians, Belarusians and several hundred Jews, among them Baruch Steinberg, the Chief Rabbi of the Polish army. The majority were interned at three Soviet camps (Kozielsk, Starobielsk and Ostaszków) before being taken to NKVD mass murder sites, where they were executed and buried in mass graves.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Steinberg
Although the killings took place at several different locations in Soviet Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, the massacre is named after the Katyń forest in the Smolensk Oblast of western Russia where the graves of the Kozielsk prisoners were discovered in 1943. The exact fate of the other victims and the location of their graves was not confirmed until five decades later. After the discovery of the Katyń burial site the USSR denied responsibility for the massacre and tried to blame it on the Germans, and continued to lie about the killings for 50 years until finally admitting Soviet guilt in 1990 and revealing where the remaining victims were buried.
It eventually became possible to exhume and identify the bodies from the mass murder sites at Charków (Kharkiv), where the NKVD murdered the prisoners who were interned at Starobielsk, and Miednoje (Mednoye), where the NKVD murdered the prisoners who were interned at Ostaszków - as well as other locations such as Bykownia (Bykivnia).
Most of the Ostaszków prisoners were killed by Beria's chief executioner Vasily Blokhin, who was awarded the Order of the Red Banner by Stalin at the end of April 1940 for demonstrating "skill and organisation in the effective carrying out of special tasks".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Blokhin
Although several other ex-members of the NKVD eventually confessed to participating in the Katyń massacre, none of the perpetrators were ever brought to justice, and neither the Soviet government nor successive governments of Russia have ever permitted a full investigation of this war crime.
There's also no shortage of vatniks, tankies and other useful idiots out there who are still in denial about it, even though claims that the murders were carried out by the Germans have zero credibility and have been comprehensively debunked (it's actually impossible for the Polish prisoners interned at Ostaszków - who disappeared without trace in 1940 and whose bodies were found in Miednoje in 1991 - to have been captured, killed and buried by the Germans, who never reached either of these locations in Russia at any time during World War 2)....
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During the Figment festival I stopped to take some shots of a Belly Dancer, because I admire the style and Belly Dancers are really hot. Immediately following the performance, Najla (the dancer) received an offer she couldn't refuse: a marriage proposal. Congratulations Najla, may you have many happy years together. Your fiance is a smart man, look at all the money he saved on photographers for your engagement photos!
Najla's site: www.najlabellydance.com/ (Stop by, she has make money for a wedding)
Sgt. Tony Simmons embraces Stephanie Springfield June 28 at Hector International Airport. Simmons returned from a nearly yearlong deployment to Kosovo, and Springfield flew in from Georgia soon afterward. Simmons proposed as soon as he saw her walk off of the plane.
The whole purpose of this project is to open a bigger space for design students to work and socialize, and the best way to do that is to open up a basement.
A Sheffield man appealed via social media for dancers to take part in a flashmob dance in order to ask his girlfriend to marry him. (She said 'yes'.) A six minute dance routine set to Love Affair’s Everlasting Love, Beyonce’s Put A Ring On It, and Bruno Mars’ Marry You.
Local paper report:
www.thestar.co.uk/what-s-on/stunned-girlfriend-says-yes-a...
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This friday, my older sister and I set up a proposal for our older brother.
We were told she loves yellow leaves and that he wanted something to do with a tree.
So here's what we did.:
We used brown chiffon, and put it on an embroidery hoop, then we hung it from the ceiling. On the brown, we put gold leaves and golden butterflies,
Going out from that we used green sparkly chiffon to act like leaves. We also had ropes of fake yellow flowers and leaves and those fanned out from the base.
We then proceeded to hand small yellow flowers from the ceiling and varying levels.
We then placed the ring in the middle of the hollow tree with 12 real yellow roses.
the finishing touches include;
Battery power flower lights- hung with the flowers in the leaves. Yellow flower confetti, and white rose petals, on the bed and floor.
Lastly a golden butterfly on the outside of the door as a hint! (;
This was so much fun, I'm very glad I got to be a part of this!
Was hired to shoot a marriage proposal in New Orleans, at Jackson Square.
Out of respect for privacy, I will not include names.