Losy rodzin katyńskich w pierwszym okresie po tzw. wyzwoleniu. Demitologizacja aksjologicznego przekonania historyków i członków rodzin katyńskich
The Fates of the Katyń Families in the First Period After the So-called Liberation. An Attempt in Demythologizing the Axiological Beliefs of Historians and Members of the Katyn Families

Summary/Abstract: The article presents selected representative examples of the fate of Katyn families in the first period after the war – the period of building and strengthening the communist regime. The axiological image of the fate of the murdered POWs and prisoners’ s families was compared with the actual causes of repression experienced by Poles: repression against soldiers and activists of the independence resistance, people supporting the resistance base, or other from repressed social classes. Contrary to the belief of historians to date, in the late 1940s and early 1950s – in the period when people were most often sentenced tocriminal sanctions for proclaiming the truth about the Katyn massacre – family members of the victims of the Katyn massacre constituted a small percentage of those repressed.

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