Movie about Katyn Forest massacre shown in Chisinau

A movie about the massacre of Polish military officers in Katyn and the sufferings of their families was premiered in Chisinau on September 9 with the support of the Embassy of Poland in Moldova, Info-Prim Neo reports. Before the screening, charge d’affaires Marcin Nosal said that the movie is about the 30,000 Polish officers that were arrested and shot dead by Soviet forces. “On September 17 1939, the Red Army invaded the territory of Poland from the east. This invasion took place while Poland had already sustained serious defeats in the wake of the German attack on the country that started on September 1, 1939. 30,000 Polish officers were arrested and sentenced to death by shooting by a decision made by the Soviet administration. They were buried in common graves,” Marcin Nosal said, stressing that the movie directed by Andrzej Wajda features these events. “This movie is first of all a story that depicts how the Polish families were shattered and their sufferings. Not only the killed officers are genuine heroes, but also the women that waited for their sons, husbands and fathers to return, for many years after the Second World War ended,” the official said. According to him, the Katyn massacre is the most painful page in Poland’s history. It is also called the Eastern Golgotha of the Polish people. This historic event became even more painful for the families of the executed officers after the Russian Military Prosecutor’s Office on March 11, 2005 stated that there were no reasons to class the Katyn slaughter as genocide. Political analyst Oazu Nantoi has told Info-Prim Neo that watching this movie you realize that the Polish society makes a moral intellectual effort to acknowledge what happened in the society, a model of behavior that unfortunately we cannot yet follow. Political thinker Arcadie Barbarosie drew a parallel between the Katyn massacre and the bloody events that happened in Georgia this summer. “Those that want to watch the movie know in reality the truth, while those that are not interested in history are not interested in the film either, though the movie should be shown to namely these persons,” Barbarosie said. One of the Polish historians said earlier that the elite and the pick of the Polish people were then annihilated.