On fascism, the Wehrmacht and Katyn: who really shot the Polish officers (14.09.2026)
A street debate by Vitaliy Dribnytsia with a pro-Russian interlocutor (ru-orig). The key moment: the historian refutes the Soviet myth that the Polish officers at Katyn were shot by the Germans. The logic is simple and devastating: the executions near Smolensk, in Kharkiv and elsewhere took place in 1940, when there were no German troops there — they arrived only in 1941; so it was the Soviet NKVD, by decision of a special “troika,” and Russia handed over the documents on these executions to the Polish side in the 1990s. A source for the article on the Katyn massacre as a model of Soviet historical falsification.
Key moments
- 03:17 A Nazi is an NSDAP member: not all Wehrmacht soldiers were Nazis
- 05:27 The interlocutor's myth: 'the Germans shot the Polish officers in 1940'
- 06:14 Katyn: near Smolensk, in Kharkiv and elsewhere the executions were in 1940 — the Germans arrived only in 1941
- 07:39 The shooting of Polish POW officers by decision of a special NKVD troika
- 08:11 It was Soviet soldiers, the NKVD — 'what do the Germans have to do with it'