The Kremlin spokesman commented on the case of Katynia

 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday (November 25) that he knows nothing about"any exaggeration of events in Katyn". At the same time, he accused Poland of "turning a blind eye to what happened in the joint history" of Poland and Russia.

Peskov said at a daily press briefing that there was no overvaluation of events in Katyn, therefore, in his opinion, "there is no reason for discussion". He also stated that Katyn is a "difficult and multidimensional topic".


The representative of the Kremlin mentioned the "last joint event" of the Polish-Russian commemoration of Katyn; he said that then all the assessments on this subject were expressed.

The agency Tass recalls in this context that in September 2009, the current president, and then prime minister of Russia Vladimir Putin paid a visit to Poland, where he participated in the celebrations related to the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Soviet Union. the anniversary of the outbreak of World War II.

In the words of Peskov, "there sounded all the assessments, there gathered all the historians and the president of the Russian Federation was present" and "it is necessary to focus on all these assessments".

At the same time, Putin's spokesman accused the Polish side that, as he put it, " often closes its eyes to what happened in our common history, and is inclined to have a priori a hostile attitude and to deny the realities." As he said, "you can only regret in this regard".

"Lying to the facts"
Earlier, the Polish embassy in Moscow said that at a conference recently organized by the Russian Military-Historical Society (rwio), statements were made "seeking to falsify the facts related to the Katyn massacre in Tver and miednoye". The embassy said that attending the conference one of the deputies of the lower house of parliament of Russia, Alexei Chepa, said he was ready to initiate the cancellation of the resolution on Katyn adopted in 2010. This resolution confirmed the responsibility of the USSR for the Katyn crime and included its condemnation. A document from 2010 also indicated that this crime was committed on the orders of Joseph Stalin.

The embassy of the Republic of Poland noted that the participants of the rwio conference questioned the validity of the placement of plaques commemorating Polish prisoners of the ostaszków camp, located on the territory of the Nilo-stolobień monastery in the Tver region. At the conference, there were statements that "there are no legal and historical grounds" for the plaques to be located in this place, the embassy said in a statement.

The camp on the territory of the monastery, located on an island on Lake Seliger, was one of three camps where Polish citizens were held, exterminated by the NKVD in the spring of 1940. Ostashkov's captives were transported to Tver and executed in the building that housed the NKVD headquarters and the internal prison. Currently, this building houses the medical university. In the spring of this year, a plaque was removed from the building, which had been there since the 1990s. 20th century, recalling the fate of the victims of the Katyn massacre killed there.