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© Tatiana TUR (USA), “Vechirniy
Kyiv”(“Evening Kyiv”), March 16th, 1996 Holocaust. Truth about Babyn Yar. Documental research (Part
nine) Soviet press keeps silence
about Babyn Yar after the liberation of Kyiv The first remark
about Babyn Yar (narrowly ten words) we can find in Moscow “Pravda” (“Truth”)
in the letter-gratitude to Comrade
Stalin from 40 000 inhabitants of Kyiv for their rescue on 6.Õ².1943. There the number of victims is already
enlarged, namely: “more than… 100 thousand are shot in dreadful Babyn
Yar”. The same short
description of tragedy in Babyn Yar is placed in “Kyivska Pravda” (“Kyiv Truth”)
of 1.²²².44. in the report of the state
commission, headed by M.Hrushchov. Here there are only some one and a half
sentences about the “greatest pestilence from all the history of mankind’. The
witnesses told they saw how Germans threw infants into the ravines and
buried them alive with the killed and wounded parents. It was clearly seen how layers of ground
moved because of the motions of still alive people”. On the other hand
there is much more detailed description of incineration of bodies (420 words),
which affirms that during the work of Commission it was possible to “get
convinced of atrocities, committed on jthe Russian population during the German
occupation of Kyiv”. In 1945 the book-brochure “Germans’ crimes in Kyiv” was published in
In 1947 Ehrenburg
vaguely descried the events in Babyn Yar in the book “Burya” (“Storm”), with the
volume of more than 700 pages. KGB printed the “exact”
description of Jewish tragedy in Babyn Yar in 1966 in the book of A.
Kuznyetzov. The description is based on
the evidence of witnesses, mostly an artiste puppet play D. Pronicheva.
After this the subject of Babyn Yar vanished from Soviet editions for many
years. THE COMMUNIST UNDRGROUND IN
KYIV DIDN’T TAKE NOTICE OF ANY ANNIHIATIONS IN BABYN YAR TILL THE AUTUMN
1943 Also the communists-members of
underground organizations in Kyiv with Volodymyr Kudryashov at the head remained silent about the
annihilation of Kyivan inhabitants or Jews in Babyn Yar. The communist
underground in Kyiv had 250 radio transmitters then, which were hushed up and
reported by radio in detail to the “Great land”, in particular about German
terror against the inhabitants of Kyiv. However, for some reason or other they
didn’t report about the annihilation of hundreds thousand people in Babyn Yar or
somewhere in Kyiv, though their underground centre was situated in Lukyanivska,
near Babyn Yar and Repiahiv ravines. A SINGLE DOCUMENT OF BOLSHEVIST UNDERGROUND
CONCERNING BABYN YAR IN KYIV WAS THE PAPER FROM THE AUTUMN 1043 ABOUT
ANNIHILATION OF UKRAINIANS BY GERMANS In 1993 the review
of underground documents in party archives of then Institute of history under
the CK of the communist party of All the documents
on the
subject in Kyiv were examined, namely two folders about the underground in Kyiv.
The first of them had 302 pages of “reports, memoranda of organizing-instructor
department of TsK KP(b)U”. One page there was found and that without a date,
from the report about the activity of Kyiv underground. This report, which
seemed to be the most believable, was probably made in 1945. On this page a
standard postwar description of annihilation of Jews is recorded in about 65
words. In the second folder there were 187 pages of such materials, and only one
page about the tragedy in Babyn Yar. From the context iot is possible to make a
conclusion, that this page under the heading “Citizens and citizenesses of Kyiv”
was printed by Bolshevist underground at the end of September 1943. There we
read: “Who of Kyivans does not know about the German Gestapo affairs in “Babyn Yar”. How many hundred thousands of
Kyivan inhabitants died there during the two years of German “liberators’”
ruling. The bloody hand of German Gestapo tortured more than a half of Kyivan
population”. (To
be
continued)
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