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Address: 2500, Esztergom Szt. István tér 1.
Phone number: (33) 415-986
E-mail: varmegom@invitel.hu
Opening hours: 01.11-31.III.: Tue-Sun 10-16, 01.04-31.10: Tue-Sun 10-18
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Guide
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3200 HUF
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Video
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The Katyń Massacre was an extreme and astonishing crime that even now, in our world full fo violence and cruelty horrify people. The number of crime that has remained unpunished and which was the result of cynicism of the powers and international politics would fill a book.
The crime at Katyń was carried out in accordance with instructions of the higher political powers of the USSR. Citizens of a state that did not even declare war on the Soviet Union were locked in camps, unlawfully.
The elite of the Polish nation was secretly killed, imprisoned without any investigation or charge against them. The number of victims is around 18.000, of which 760 were doctors, 1040 teachers, over 100 were lawyers and many-many specialists.
After the Germans recovered the mass graves in Poland in the spring of 1943, near the forest of Smolensk; the graves were used by major plays of world powers. The Germans launched a wide-scale propaganda, though they wanted to disturb the anti-Hitler coalition by raising charges against Russians for their association of Polish military officers.
The Soviet declared the excavation of the grave ‘base fabrication of Germans-Fascist murderers’ and accused the German Empire for committing the Massacre at Katyń, ceasing all relations with the Emigrant Government of Poland located in London as the Russians called them 'retainers of Hitler'.
Not only denied The USA and Great Britain the fact of the massacre, but refused to make public who really committed the massacre. It was because what they focused on was to end the war as soon as possible. They wanted to see the victory of the anti-Hitler alliance for which they indispensably needed the Soviet Union.
At the conferences in Yalta and Teheran, without the knowledge of the allied Polish government, Stalin made the leaders of the West recognize the eastern borders of Poland, under which almost all regions that the Soviets seized in 1939 was attached to the Soviet Union and after the war Poland was put in the Soviet occupation zone.
Russia still not have apologized for Katyń. The Soviet News agency in its official statement on 13 April 1990 placed the responsibility not on the Supreme Command of the Soviet Union but on a few concrete people, namely "Berija, Merkulov and the people who assisted them" – the manager and assistant of NKVD.
However, those who committed the crime were still not found!