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© Tatiana TUR (USA), “Vechirniy Kyiv”(“Evening
Kyiv”), March 16th, 1996 Holocaust. Truth about Babyn Yar. Documental research (Part
five) The chroniclers of Kyiv
O.Dovzhenko, T.Strokach and A.Chekanyuk in the books from wartime wrote down
something about deportations, but didn’t remark the extermination of inhabitants
of Kyiv. A citizen of Kyiv,
a prominent film director and scenarist Oleksandr Dovzhenko in his book “Germans
won’t manage in Ukraine”, which was published in the beginning of 1943, wrote
that Germans drove Jews from Kyiv, but not tormented to death: “People are driven away. Only from Kyiv in
October 1941 50 thousand women were driven away”. Are not these 50
thousand women just these 52 thousand inhabitants of Kyiv, whom Molotov
commanded to shoot for the propaganda among the allies? In the books of
T.Strokach “Partisans of Ukraine” and A.Chekanyuk “National militia in the
heroic defence of Kyiv and Odesa” there is also no mention about Babyn Yar. That’s because the Information bureau of
the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs “started a false report” about
annihilation of population in Kyiv only between western allies, because at
that time there was no order to spread this information in the Soviet Union
yet. An important
argument, that the annihilation of inhabitants of Kyiv in Babyn Yar is a
fabrication of the Soviet propaganda, is “A note of people`s commissar of
foreign affairs comrade V.Molotov about the monstrous misdeeds, atrocities and
violence of German-fascist invaders” from the 6th of January 1942 and the latest
its variants. In the English-Speaking editions for export to the West it is
written: “In several days German brigands killed and tormented to death 52
thousand men, women and children, treating cruelly Ukrainians, Russians and Jews
for their faithfulness to the Soviet authority… Germans drove together a great number of
Jews, women and children in particular, on the Jewish cemetery… Before the
shooting everybody was stripped to the skin and beaten… After the shooting
Germans sprinkled everybody with a thin layer of soil”. ·
Firstly, let’s mention, that
in the note it is not talked about some ravine or ravines, but it is clearly
said that the place of interment was the Jewish cemetery. ·
Secondly, this official note o
the Informational bureau of People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs shows that
the murderers were Germans, but not Ukrainians or Ukrainian police. ·
Thirdly, there is said, that
the main victims of Germans were Ukrainians and Jews are mentioned on the third
place. It is hardly to assume, that
there was any display of anti-Semitism in this. That’s because the head of
Soviet Informational bureau was Slomon Losovskiy, the head of the Informational
bureau of People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs - the ardent Jewish patriot,
the wife of Molotov Polina Zhemchuzhna (her name was Perla Karp). Though, after
the war Moscow radio didn’t avoid to broadcast the Zionist hymn “Gatikva”, and
the Soviet government began to decorate the Jews with orders and the stars of
Hero of Soviet Union. Probably, the most important
is that in mass Russian-speaking editions of this note there is no mention about
Babyn Yar and “slaughter” in Kyiv or in the neighbourhood of the city. The
Soviet authority didn’t fear to befool the naive West, but didn’t dare to
deceive own people in such way, among whom there were so much
eyewitnesses. The Soviet propaganda tried
to make America open a new front in Europe in this way, and, secondly, protect itself in case if
Germans will open more and more common graves of the victims of NKVD , as the
did in July 1941 in Lviv. (To be
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