Russian experts know how to rehabilitate the victims of Katyn

Russian experts have worked for the options of rehabilitation of victims of "Katyn crime" - the Polish POWs were executed by the NKVD. This was at a meeting of the President's Council on Human Rights, said the head of the commission at the head of state for the rehabilitation of victims of political repression, Mikhail Mityukov."Interagency Working Group under the auspices of our committee has developed recommendations on this subject, which are represented in the Russian presidential administration, where they discussed, and the work continues - quoted Mityukova" Interfax ". - To date, declassified 148 of 183 volumes of the criminal case."Recall that a work in progress, it became known in February this year. According to human rights, Polish jurists believe that the rehabilitation of the citizens of Poland should be done "list", they insist on changing the qualification of "Katyn crime", as well as to conduct an effective investigation and the declassification of all materials.The term "Katyn crime" consider the collective: it means shooting in April and May 1940, almost 22 thousand Polish citizens detained in various prisons and camps of the NKVD. Decades, the Soviet leadership did not recognize the fact that Poles were executed by the NKVD.In modern Russia, the main military prosecutor's office (GWP) has investigated the Katyn affair, but closed it in 2004. Decision to terminate the investigation secret.In June 2010, Chief Military Prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky told reporters that he sees no grounds for the resumption of the investigation and recognition of Poles murdered victims of repression.

Late last year, the State Duma in a statement acknowledged that the execution of Polish officers at Katyn was made on the direct orders of Josef Stalin and other Soviet leaders. Human rights activists say that a point in the supply of executed legal rehabilitation."The solution of the Katyn issue we must first of all, we, in Russia. This is our internal problem," - said earlier the head of the Polish program of "Memorial" Alexander Guryanov.The memorial complex "Katyn" is located 18 kilometers west of Smolensk in the Katyn forest. Even before the massacre of Polish soldiers during the mass repressions of the 30s of the twentieth century is made burial shot in Smolensk, Soviet citizens - about 8000 people. Eighteen months ago, the Polish delegation, coming here for commemorative events, was killed in the crash of the board number 1 while landing at the airfield North of Smolensk.