In the Moscow News article, Natalya Lebedeva, a Soviet historian, wrote that although no documentary evidence was then available, all indications were that Stalin had ordered the Polish officers slain in 1940. She said Stalin had a special grudge against the Polish Army because of its victory over Soviet forces in 1920. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/15/world/russian-files-show-stalin-ordered-massacre-of-20000-poles-in-1940.html?pagewanted=all
So it took 50 years for the Soviet government to admit this--alot like the US government which took about 60+ years till it admitted the covert giving away of E. Europe to Stalin by FDR and Churchill was a very grave mistake. -r
So it took 50 years for the Soviet government to admit this--alot like the US government which took about 60+ years till it admitted the covert giving away of E. Europe to Stalin by FDR and Churchill was a very grave mistake. -r
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Lenin wrote to Stalin, the chief political commissar attached to the Red Army in Ukraine, suggesting a simultaneous attack (1920) through Romania, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, to provoke revolution in Italy. Stalin responded that "it would be a sin" not to try. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3671851/When-Lenin-invaded-Poland.html
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Since 2002, the U.S. had been in talks with Poland and other European countries over the possibility of setting up a European base to intercept long-range missiles....
Russia threatened to place short-range nuclear missiles on its borders with NATO, if the United States went ahead with plans to deploy 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic.[10][11] In April 2007, then-President Putin warned of a new Cold War if the Americans deployed the shield in Central Europe.[12] Putin also said that Russia was prepared to abandon its obligations under the Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987 with the United States.[13][14]
Russia threatened to place short-range nuclear missiles on its borders with NATO, if the United States went ahead with plans to deploy 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic.[10][11] In April 2007, then-President Putin warned of a new Cold War if the Americans deployed the shield in Central Europe.[12] Putin also said that Russia was prepared to abandon its obligations under the Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987 with the United States.[13][14]
On July 4, 2008, Poland did not agree on the conditions set forth by the United States regarding the installation of anti-ballistic missiles on its territory.[15] On July 8, 2008, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that if the missile defense system was approved, "we will be forced to react not with diplomatic, but with military-technical methods."[16]
On August 14, 2008, shortly after the 2008 South Ossetia war, the United States and Poland announced a deal to implement the missile defense system on Polish territory, with a tracking system placed in the Czech Republic. The Russians responded by saying such action "cannot go unpunished."[17] ...The deputy chief of staff of Russia's armed forces Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn warned that, "by deploying (the system), it is exposing itself to a strike — 100 percent".[19]
On November 8, 2008 an aide to U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama denied a claim made by Polish President Lech Kaczyński's office, that a pledge had been made to go ahead with the missile defense system during a phone conversation between the two men. "His [Obama's] position is as it was throughout the campaign, that he supports deploying a missile defence system when the technology is proved to be workable," the aide said, but "no commitment" has been made.[23]
On November 14, French President Nicolas Sarkozy stated that plans for a U.S. missile shield in Central Europe were misguided, and wouldn't make the continent a safer place. ...On September 17, 2009, The White House issued a statement saying that the US "no longer planned to move forward" with the project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_missile_defense_complex_in_Poland
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Mirek Topolanek, who was prime minister when Prague agreed to co-host the (missile) shield, said the U.S. decision to drop the plans "is not good news for the Czech state, for Czech freedom and independence."[48]
...EIS was cancelled in 2009 and subsequently replaced with a phased plan—the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, which will include SM-3 Block IIA interceptors to be positioned in Poland from 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_missile_defense_complex_in_Poland
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On February 4, 2010, Romania agreed to host the SM-3 missiles starting in 2015[21] at Deveselu.
The first element of this revised system, an early warning radar station in Malatya, Turkey, went operational on 16 January 2012. Other parts of the missile defence system are planned to be built in Portugal, Poland, Romania and Spain.[22]
Mirek Topolanek, who was prime minister when Prague agreed to co-host the (missile) shield, said the U.S. decision to drop the plans "is not good news for the Czech state, for Czech freedom and independence."[48]
...EIS was cancelled in 2009 and subsequently replaced with a phased plan—the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, which will include SM-3 Block IIA interceptors to be positioned in Poland from 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_missile_defense_complex_in_Poland
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On February 4, 2010, Romania agreed to host the SM-3 missiles starting in 2015[21] at Deveselu.
The first element of this revised system, an early warning radar station in Malatya, Turkey, went operational on 16 January 2012. Other parts of the missile defence system are planned to be built in Portugal, Poland, Romania and Spain.[22]
...During its 2012 Chicago Summit NATO leaders declared that the NATO missile defence system has reached interim capability.[27] Interim capability means that a basic command and control capability has been tested and installed at NATOs Headquarters Allied Air Command in Ramstein, Germany, while NATO Allies provide sensors and interceptors to connect to the system.[28] It also means that US ships with anti-missile interceptors in the Mediterranean Sea and a Turkey-based radar system have been put under NATO command in the German base.[27][29] “Our system will link together missile defence assets from different Allies – satellites, ships, radars and interceptors – under NATO command and control. It will allow us to defend against threats from outside the Euro-Atlantic area,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.[30]
...Spain will host four US Aegis warships at its port in Rota while Poland and Romania have agreed to host US land-based SM-3 missiles in the coming years.[29] According to a State Department official Frank A. Rose, the United States has "offered EPAA assets to the Alliance" as an "interim BMD capability", including the AN/TPY-2 radar deployed in Turkey, which is "under NATO operational control". Rose also said that "In addition, U.S. BMD-capable Aegis ships in Europe are also now able to operate under NATO operational control when threat conditions warrant."[31]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_missile_defence_system
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Among the lies and distortions of Soviet history that Vladimir Putin’s government continues to perpetuate is a downplaying of the human cost of trying to “build socialism” during the nearly 75-year reign of communist rule in the Soviet Union, from 1917 to 1991. It is estimated that as many as 64 million innocent men, women and children were killed in the Soviet Union in the name of building the socialist workers’ paradise.” ...
...Spain will host four US Aegis warships at its port in Rota while Poland and Romania have agreed to host US land-based SM-3 missiles in the coming years.[29] According to a State Department official Frank A. Rose, the United States has "offered EPAA assets to the Alliance" as an "interim BMD capability", including the AN/TPY-2 radar deployed in Turkey, which is "under NATO operational control". Rose also said that "In addition, U.S. BMD-capable Aegis ships in Europe are also now able to operate under NATO operational control when threat conditions warrant."[31]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_missile_defence_system
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Among the lies and distortions of Soviet history that Vladimir Putin’s government continues to perpetuate is a downplaying of the human cost of trying to “build socialism” during the nearly 75-year reign of communist rule in the Soviet Union, from 1917 to 1991. It is estimated that as many as 64 million innocent men, women and children were killed in the Soviet Union in the name of building the socialist workers’ paradise.” ...
Stalin accepted Lenin’s view and believed that another equally exhausting new world war among those capitalist nations would enable the socialist revolution to be extended all the way across the European continent. In a secret speech in Moscow before Communist Party members in January 1925, Stalin said that the Soviet Union would not be able to stay out of a future war; but when action was taken by the USSR it should be at the end of the conflict to tip the scales toward an outcome favorable for world revolution.
In Stalin’s own words, “But if war breaks out we shall not be able to sit with folded arms. We shall have to take action, but we shall be the last to do so. And we shall do so in order to throw the decisive weight in the scales, the weight that can turn the scales.” http://capitalismmagazine.com/2016/05/how-stalin-used-hitler-to-start-world-war-ii/
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About 10 statues of Stalin have gone up around Russia since 2012, said Pavel Gnilorybov, a historian who works with a group that tracks human rights abuses. Some of the renewed admiration comes from President Vladimir Putin, who often laments the breakup of what had been the world's only other superpower besides the United States. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/08/16/soviet-union-terror-josef-stalin-popularity/556625001/
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