Myths of Mednoe

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This is Mednoe memorial complex. On September 2 of every year, mourning ceremonies are held here in presence of important politicians of Poland. Visitors are assured that remains of more than 6,000 Polish war prisoners executed in spring of 1940 repose here. Here are these several thousand plates with names of the victims. Among them are Ludwik Małowiejski and Józef Kuligowski. According to Polish archives, both of them were captured by the Red Army in autumn of 1939, sent to the Ostashkov POW camp afterwards, in 1940 they were executed in Kalinin and buried here.

2011. Ukrainian and Polish archaeologists carry out excavations of wartime burial places. Not near Mednoe but thousands of kilometers away from Tver region. Ukraine, territory of the ancient settlement Valy near Vladimir Volynskiy. Archaeologists are convinced that mass burial is work of the Nazi. Empty cartridge cases of German weapons were found in the graves. Victims were killed by the method of SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln. Before execution people were forced to descend into graves and lie face down on corpses already lying there. After that they were shot in the back of the head. SS-man Jeckeln invented this method of murder for German punitive detachments that carried out mass executions in occupied areas. 

Sergey Shablovskiy, archaeologist, Ukraine: “The body buried its face in its hands. If someone was killed and thrown into a pit, during the fall a body couldn’t take such position. There is a version that they were killed in a pit. All of them are lying in one direction.” 

Sergey Panishko, head of archaeological expedition, Ukraine: “We suppose that this execution was related to the period of time when Germans occupied Vladimir-Volynskiy. This is a dog-tag of Polish state police with number 1441. The owner can be identified by the number.” Under the earth stratum archaeologists find Polish police officers’ dog-tags from the times of World War II with numbers 1099 and 1441. The dog-tags belong to Józef Kuligowski and Ludwik Małowiejski. Familiar surnames, aren't they? New Polish dog-tags are found during excavations in Ukraine every year. Their owners like Małowiejski and Kuligowski are habitually attributed to victims of Stalin repressions. However, names of the killed Poles are carefully kept in secrecy. Most likely, they will also appear in mythical lists of the memorial in Mednoe, which is a part of the Katyn falsification.