81 Years Since the Augustów Raid. Graves of Hundreds of Poles Still Undiscovered
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The Augustów and Suwałki areas, occupied by the Red Army at the turn of 1944 and 1945, were largely controlled by the Polish independence underground after the front rolled over. By May 1945, they had managed to destroy almost all militia posts in Suwałki County (17 of 18), as well as 12 of the 14 municipal government offices established there. The helplessness of the Polish authorities, subordinate to Moscow, was likely one of the reasons for t…
Today marks the anniversary of a horrific crime committed by Soviet Russia, supported by Polish traitors. On July 12, 1945, the Augustów Roundup took place, claiming the lives of several hundred Poles. Former Minister of Culture, Professor Piotr Gliński, spoke: "We still haven't found their bodies, although the Białystok Institute of National Remembrance knows where they lie, just beyond the Polish border..."
In July 1945, two months after the end of World War II in Europe, in the Augustów Forest region, the Red Army, in cooperation with Polish security officers and soldiers of the "People's" Polish Army, carried out a criminal military operation. Its goal was to eliminate the independence underground operating in the area, which, among other things, defended the local population from Soviet terror. A significant portion of the underground soldiers …
On July 12, 1945, NKVD and SMERSH units launched an operation that became known as the Augustów Raid. As a result, approximately 600 residents of the Augustów and Suwałki areas were kidnapped and likely murdered. This is the largest unsolved crime of that period.
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