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Exhumation of victims of the Katyn Massacre, 1943
Soviet prisoners of war held near Radzymin

Anti-Katyn (Polish: Anty-Katyń, Russian: Анти-Катынь) is a denialism campaign intended to reduce and obscure the significance of the Katyn massacre of 1940 — where approximately 22,000 Polish military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war were murdered by the Soviet NKVD on the orders of Joseph Stalin — by referencing the deaths from disease of thousands of Imperial Russian and Red Army soldiers at Polish internment camps during the Interwar period.

"Anti-Katyn" first emerged around 1990. After the Soviet government admitted that it had previously tried to cover up its responsibility for the massacre by claiming that it was perpetrated by the German Wehrmacht, previously neglected research into the fate of Soviet POWs in Poland in 1920s was revived to be used as a "tit-for-tat" argument in the discussions of Katyn.[1]

Polish historian Andrzej Nowak summarized "Anti-Katyn" as an attempt by certain Russian historians and publicists to "overshadow the memory of the crimes of the Soviet system against the Poles, creating imaginary analogies or even justification" because of the earlier deaths of the prisoners of war.[2]

Background

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Main article: Katyn massacre

In 1987, on the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of the Warsaw Pact in the midst of perestroika, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachyov and Polish leader Wojciech Jaruzelski signed a declaration about cooperation in the issues of ideology, on the base of which a Poland–Soviet commission on the history of Polish Soviet relations (ru:Советско-польская комиссия по изучению истории двух стран).[3][4]

One of the most "difficult issues" was the World War II massacre of approximately 22,000 Polish citizens, who were executed and buried in mass graves in several places including Katyn, Smolensk Oblast, less than a year after the coordinated Nazi-German and Soviet invasion of Poland.[3] In 1943, by which time Smolensk had become German-occupied Soviet territory, the Katyn mass graves were discovered by German telephone and communication workers.[5] The Soviet Union officially denied responsibility; a Soviet commission blamed the deaths on Nazi Germany during the Nuremberg Trials.[3]

Under subsequent communist regimes in Poland and the Soviet Union, the Katyn massacre was not subject to further investigation for decades even as a potential war crime committed by the Germans.[citation needed] Georgy Lukich Smirnov, head of the archival Institute of Marxism-Leninism, was tasked with leading a full investigation. In 1990, the Soviet Union officially admitted that the NKVD committed the massacre on the orders of Josef Stalin following a recommendation by Lavrenty Beria. Gorbachev condemned it as another example of Stalinism.

"Anti-Katyn"

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After the official admission of the fact that the Soviet government was responsible for the massacre, some Russian historians and journalists responded by alleging mass executions of Soviets in post-World War I Polish internment camps. The early Soviet deaths became the subject of, according to the Polish government, "various propagandist campaigns" purporting that the massacre of the Poles was "justified" in the eyes of Stalin.[5]

Professor Aleksandr Guryanov, of the Memorial Society, named Mikhail Gorbachev as one of the instigators of "anti-Katyn" when Gorbachev demanded an investigation into the deaths of the Soviet citizens in Polish custody and other damages to the Soviet Union from the side of Poland, with results to be used in talks with Poland about "blind spots" in history.[6][7]

In 2011, Russian historian Inessa Yazhborovskaya wrote:

The fear of clarifying the circumstances of the Katyn case, in particular the issues of responsibility for the party and state leadership, created a new problem, the so-called "anti-Katyn" – finding ways of glossing over the truth and avoiding admission of guilt on the Soviet side concerning the criminal, secret mass murder of Polish prisoners of war, by finding "balance" and presenting a "counterclaim."

— "The Katyn Affair: On the Way to the Truth" (Questions of History, May 2011)[3]

In 2004, a joint Polish-Russian research team estimated that approximately 60,000 to 80,000 Russian and Soviet army members were held in Poland from 1919 to 1924. An estimated 16,000 to 20,000 died because of disease, mainly typhus, cholera and dysentery.[5]

Others have countered that the "anti-Katyn" arguments concerning the deaths of the Soviet POWs are irrelevant to the discussion of Katyn. Historian Nikita Petrov of Russia's "Memorial" society said, "This is about that simple Russian 'correct' way of perceiving and absorbing the Katyn crime. This message should be: 'Stalin was, of course, bad. But he was no exception. He killed the Poles, but the Poles also killed us ...'"[8]

The subject was discussed during the 2011 Capitol Hill conference "Katyn: Unfinished Inquiry". John Lenczowski, president of the Institute of World Politics, noted that Soviet POWs were invaders and while suffering harsh treatment in the camps, they mostly died of communicable diseases, while the victims of Katyn were deliberately shot and murdered.[9]

In the 2010 documentary What Can Dead Prisoners Do [pl],[10] Russian, British, and Polish historians were invited to talk about these accusations.[11][12]

In 2017, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs protested against Russian plaques placed in Katyn, "featuring false information about the Bolshevik prisoners of the 1919-1921 war, who had died in Polish captivity".[13] Institute of National Remembrance also protested.[14]

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Anti-Katyn (Polish: Anty-Katyń, Russian: Анти-Катынь) is a campaign of historical revisionism and denialism that originated in the early 1990s following the Soviet Union's admission of responsibility for the Katyn massacre, in which the NKVD executed approximately 22,000 Polish prisoners of war and civilians in 1940. It seeks to diminish the perceived uniqueness and severity of this deliberate mass execution by analogizing it to the deaths of between 16,000 and 20,000 Soviet prisoners of war in Polish internment camps from 1919 to 1924, primarily attributed to infectious diseases and harsh conditions rather than systematic extermination. Initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev through directives to investigate alleged Polish crimes against Soviet citizens, the narrative portrays these interwar camp deaths—sometimes inflated to figures as high as 60,000—as equivalent atrocities or even genocides, framing the Katyn killings as potential retaliation by Joseph Stalin. Russian officials, including Vladimir Putin, have invoked this "tit-for-tat" logic, with Putin stating in 2010 that Stalin's order was influenced by "a sense of revenge" for Soviet POW losses in Polish captivity. Efforts have included conditioning the erection of Katyn memorials on simultaneous commemorations of Soviet victims, as proposed by Boris Yeltsin in 1998, to "balance the historical equation" despite the absence of evidence for organized Polish genocide. This revisionism persists in Russian discourse to obscure Soviet culpability, equating intentional executions with wartime disease fatalities and leveraging access to Polish archives—granted in 2002—to promote unsubstantiated claims of Polish "concentration camps," though research confirms no .

Historical Context

Katyn Massacre Overview

The Katyn massacre involved the systematic execution of approximately 22,000 Polish prisoners of war by the Soviet NKVD in April and May 1940. These victims primarily consisted of military officers, police personnel, border guards, and members of the Polish intelligentsia who had been captured following the Soviet invasion of eastern Poland in September 1939 under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The killings were carried out methodically, with prisoners transported to execution sites such as Katyn Forest near Smolensk, where they were shot in the back of the head and buried in mass graves, distinguishing the event as a deliberate act of genocide rather than incidental mortality. The operation was authorized at the highest levels of the Soviet leadership, including direct orders from Joseph Stalin and the Politburo, as part of a broader policy to eliminate Poland's military and intellectual elite. NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria oversaw the implementation, coordinating the transport and disposal of bodies across multiple sites in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. This premeditated campaign aimed to decapitate Polish society and prevent resistance to Soviet occupation. Following the 1943 discovery of mass graves by German forces, the Soviet Union denied responsibility and propagated a narrative blaming Nazi perpetrators, suppressing evidence and intimidating witnesses for decades. This cover-up persisted until 1990, when Mikhail Gorbachev's government admitted Soviet guilt, declassifying documents that confirmed the NKVD's role and the scale of the executions. The admission marked a pivotal acknowledgment of one of Stalin's most notorious wartime crimes amid shifting Polish-Soviet relations.

Soviet Prisoners in Polish Camps

Following the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–1921, Poland interned tens of thousands of Soviet prisoners, including soldiers from the Red Army and former Imperial Russian forces, in camps such as those at Strzałkowo, Pikulice, and Tuchola. These facilities, hastily established amid postwar chaos, housed a total of approximately 80,000 to 85,000 prisoners, with conditions exacerbated by overcrowding, inadequate sanitation, and supply shortages typical of the era's economic hardships.) Mortality was primarily driven by infectious diseases, including typhus, dysentery, and influenza epidemics that spread rapidly in the unsanitary environments, particularly during the harsh winters of 1919–1920. Estimates indicate 16,000 to 20,000 deaths occurred among Soviet prisoners, representing a fraction of the total interned but reflecting neglect rather than systematic extermination, as medical resources were strained and international aid limited. Repatriation efforts accelerated after the 1921 Treaty of Riga, reducing camp populations and eventual fatalities.

Origins and Development

Emergence Around 1990

The Anti-Katyn campaign first emerged in 1990, coinciding with the unraveling of the Soviet cover-up of the Katyn massacre following Mikhail Gorbachev's formal admission of Soviet responsibility on April 13 of that year. This acknowledgment prompted a swift counter-response, as Soviet authorities sought to contextualize their crimes by directing attention to historical grievances. On November 3, 1990, the Politburo under Gorbachev issued an order to compile archives on Polish internment of Soviet prisoners during the Polish-Soviet War, marking an official initiative to revive dormant narratives. The timing aligned with the waning Cold War, including perestroika reforms and early post-communist shifts that facilitated Polish-Soviet historical dialogues, such as Gorbachev's meetings with Polish leaders amid glasnost. Previously underemphasized studies on Soviet POW fates in Polish camps from 1919–1924, where deaths primarily resulted from epidemics like typhus amid postwar chaos, were selectively highlighted and reframed in public discourse starting in late 1990. This weaponization of archival material aimed to introduce equivalence in bilateral memory politics, leveraging the opening of records during the USSR's final years to construct a defensive historical posture.

Post-Soviet Admission Revival

Following the Soviet Union's official admission of responsibility for the Katyn massacre on April 13, 1990, via a TASS statement, Russian authorities initiated efforts to counter the implications of this revelation, which had previously shifted blame to Nazi Germany. Mikhail Gorbachev reportedly directed scientific institutions, prosecutors, and the KGB to identify historical facts that could implicate Poland, focusing on the fate of Red Army prisoners of war held in Polish internment camps during the 1919–1920 Polish-Soviet War. This prompted a revival of research into these events, previously underexplored in Soviet historiography, to frame Polish custody as comparable to Soviet actions at Katyn. The renewed studies emphasized deaths among Soviet prisoners—estimated at around 16,000 to 18,000, primarily from disease and poor conditions amid postwar chaos—portraying them as deliberate extermination akin to Katyn, despite evidence from Polish and independent sources indicating no systematic policy of murder. A specific directive from Gorbachev on November 3, 1990, formalized the search for such "balancing" evidence, leading to selective use of archives and exaggerated claims in Russian publications, including assertions of up to 60,000–100,000 victims. This approach institutionalized analogies in Russian academic and public discourse, transforming sporadic pre-1990 references into a structured counter-narrative. In historical discussions, this revived research served to promote "tit-for-tat" equivalences, suggesting mutual culpability between Poland and the Soviet Union to dilute accountability for the 1940 massacre. Institutions like Moscow State University and the Institute of Slavic Studies contributed to publications and media campaigns that integrated these claims, embedding them in Russia's broader policy toward Poland through the early 2000s. The strategy aimed to relativize Soviet crimes by highlighting earlier interwar camp deaths as revived evidence of Polish wrongdoing, thereby overshadowing the premeditated nature of Katyn.

Core Arguments

Tit-for-Tat Equivalence Claims

The tit-for-tat equivalence claims central to the Anti-Katyn campaign assert that the deaths of thousands of Soviet prisoners of war in Polish internment camps between 1919 and 1921 constitute a historical parallel to the Katyn massacre, portraying both as instances of reciprocal mistreatment during conflicts between Poland and Soviet Russia. Proponents highlight the scale of Soviet losses—often cited as resulting from harsh camp conditions, disease, and logistical challenges amid the Polish-Soviet War—as analogous to the execution of Polish officers by Soviet forces in 1940, thereby framing the events as mutually inflicted wartime sufferings rather than unilateral crimes. This argumentative strategy emphasizes a moral symmetry, suggesting that Soviet actions at Katyn can be understood as a response to or consequence of prior Polish custody of Red Army personnel, with figures like Vladimir Putin invoking the earlier deaths to draw comparisons between Polish and Russian historical grievances during a 2010 Katyn memorial. Russian public discourse has referenced these camp fatalities, sometimes exaggerating numbers up to around 60,000, to argue for a balanced ledger of accountability that diminishes the distinct premeditation attributed to Katyn. By analogizing the internment camp deaths—attributed to factors like epidemics and overcrowding—with the systematic shootings at Katyn, the claims aim to relativize the latter's significance through a narrative of equivalent culpability, positioning Soviet policies as reactive within a cycle of Polish-Soviet antagonism. This approach has been articulated in statements equating the suffering of Soviet captives to that of Polish elites, seeking to obscure Katyn's uniqueness as a targeted elimination campaign by invoking prior equivalences.

Relativization of Soviet Crimes

The Anti-Katyn narrative reframes the deliberate executions of approximately 22,000 Polish prisoners by the Soviet NKVD in 1940 as morally comparable to the deaths of Soviet soldiers in Polish internment camps during the early 1920s, where fatalities resulted largely from epidemics, malnutrition, and postwar logistical challenges rather than systematic extermination orders. This relativization downplays the premeditated genocidal intent behind Katyn—authorized at the highest levels of Stalin's regime—by portraying it within a broader pattern of reciprocal wartime hardships, thereby obscuring the asymmetry between intentional state-sponsored murder and unintended consequences of interwar custody. Polish historian Andrzej Nowak has characterized these efforts as a strategy to overshadow Soviet systemic crimes against Poles through fabricated equivalences, effectively justifying later atrocities by invoking prior Polish handling of prisoners. By emphasizing disease-related mortality in Polish camps—estimated in the thousands amid the chaos following the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–1921—proponents construct "tit-for-tat" analogies that erode the unique culpability of the Katyn perpetrators, shifting focus from Soviet aggression to mutual culpability in historical suffering.

Proponents and Methods

Russian Historians Involved

Gennady Matveev, a Russian professor and doctor of historical sciences, has been a prominent figure in researching the deaths of Soviet prisoners in Polish internment camps during 1919–1922, estimating approximately 28,000 to 30,000 fatalities primarily due to disease, malnutrition, and alleged neglect by Polish authorities. His work, including analyses presented in Russian media and interviews, revives archival data on camp conditions to highlight these losses as a historical parallel to the Katyn massacre, arguing that Poland has withheld relevant documentation despite post-war treaties like the Treaty of Riga. Matveev's publications and public statements frame these events as evidence of reciprocal mistreatment, contributing to narratives that seek to contextualize or relativize Soviet actions in 1940 by emphasizing earlier Polish custody failures. Other Russian academics, such as those affiliated with state-supported historical commissions, have supported similar revisions by compiling statistics on Soviet internee mortality rates exceeding 15–20% in certain camps, attributing them to deliberate policy rather than wartime exigencies, though these claims often rely on selective archival interpretations to counterbalance Katyn commemorations. This scholarly engagement emerged prominently after 1990, aligning with broader efforts to integrate Soviet POW fates into Russian historical discourse as a form of equivalence to Polish victimhood narratives.

Publicistic and Media Tactics

The Anti-Katyn narrative gained prominence in Russian publicistic writings shortly after the Soviet Union's 1990 admission of responsibility for the Katyn massacre, with authors leveraging archival data on Soviet prisoners of war in Polish internment camps to construct a counter-narrative of reciprocal suffering. Opinion pieces in outlets like newspapers and journals emphasized disease-related deaths among Red Army captives during the early 1920s as a form of Polish culpability, aiming to dilute the uniqueness of Soviet crimes by invoking historical balance. Russian mass media amplified these tactics from the mid-2000s onward, incorporating the theme into broadcasts, articles, and online discussions that portrayed Katyn discussions as one-sided while highlighting unacknowledged Polish internment hardships. State-aligned channels and publications framed the revived POW research as evidence of mutual wartime tragedies, often without contextualizing the non-intentional nature of most internee deaths, to foster a defensive patriotic response. This approach extended to information campaigns tying Anti-Katyn elements to broader geopolitical tensions, such as Poland-Russia relations. Publicists employed relativizing language in essays and commentaries, equating scales of loss to challenge Western and Polish commemorations of Katyn, thereby embedding the revisionism in popular discourse beyond scholarly circles.

Criticisms and Responses

Polish Historical Critiques

Polish historians have characterized the Anti-Katyn campaign as an effort by certain Russian actors to overshadow Soviet crimes against Poles through the creation of false historical analogies, thereby relativizing the unique gravity of the Katyn massacre. They argue that attempts to equate Katyn with the earlier deaths of Soviet prisoners of war in Polish internment camps fail to account for fundamental differences in intent and nature. The deaths of thousands of Red Army soldiers captured during the 1919–1921 Polish-Soviet War resulted mainly from contagious diseases like cholera, worsened by wartime overcrowding, inadequate sanitation, and logistical strains, rather than any systematic extermination policy. Polish critiques emphasize that these were tragic consequences of conflict and neglect, not premeditated genocide. In stark contrast, the Katyn massacre constituted a deliberate, ordered operation by the Soviet NKVD to eliminate approximately 22,000 Polish officers, intelligentsia, and prisoners as part of a broader effort to decapitate Polish leadership and society. This distinction underscores the rejection of tit-for-tat narratives that obscure the intentional criminality and scale of Soviet actions in 1940.

Assessments of Revisionism

Anti-Katyn represents a form of historical revisionism that endeavors to equate the Soviet-orchestrated Katyn massacre—a premeditated execution of Polish elites—with mortality among Soviet prisoners in Polish internment camps, where deaths stemmed largely from epidemics and wartime privations rather than systematic killing. This revisionist framing diminishes the unique culpability of Stalin's regime by implying reciprocal culpability, despite the absence of archival evidence for Polish orders mirroring the NKVD's directorial executions at Katyn. Assessments highlight the revisionism's ethical shortcomings in historiographical practice, as it conflates intentional genocide with unintentional fatalities from typhus and malnutrition, ignoring the Soviet leadership's explicit Politburo authorization for Katyn and the ensuing cover-up that blamed Nazi perpetrators for decades. Unlike the Polish camps, where mortality rates reflected broader post-1920 war conditions without fabricated narratives of foreign guilt, Anti-Katyn narratives fail to engage primary documents confirming Stalin's role, thereby prioritizing political equivalence over factual disparity.

Impact

Effects on Polish-Russian Memory Politics

The Anti-Katyn campaign has exacerbated strains in Polish-Russian relations by introducing counter-claims about Soviet POW deaths in Polish internment camps, which are invoked to contest the moral and historical primacy of Katyn commemorations. Russian narratives often portray these earlier events as analogous atrocities, thereby relativizing the deliberate Soviet executions of 1940 and complicating joint remembrance efforts, such as shared memorials or official acknowledgments. This has fostered mutual accusations of historical distortion during bilateral commemorative events, hindering reconciliation and reinforcing Polish perceptions of . Post-1990, following the Soviet Union's admission of responsibility for Katyn, Anti-Katyn elements have been integrated into state-sponsored Russian historical discourse to counter Polish demands for full accountability and apologies. The Kremlin has leveraged revived research on interwar Soviet POW fates as a diplomatic tool, portraying it as evidence of reciprocal victimhood and using it to deflect criticism in international forums and bilateral talks. This approach has intensified memory politics tensions, contributing to cycles of recrimination that undermine trust and cooperation on historical issues.

Ongoing Influence

The Anti-Katyn narrative persists in Russian public discourse as a means to relativize the Katyn massacre, often resurfacing amid heightened geopolitical tensions with Poland and the West, such as following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, where state-aligned historians and media have revived claims of Polish culpability in 1920s internment camp deaths to offset Soviet responsibility. Recent Kremlin-linked initiatives, including exhibitions portraying Polish actions as equivalent historical grievances, continue to employ this framing to foster a balanced view of bilateral history in domestic audiences. This approach aligns with broader Russian efforts to reshape World War II memory, adapting Anti-Katyn arguments to contemporary narratives that emphasize external aggressions against Russia while downplaying internal atrocities. Its ongoing invocation underscores a strategic use in public memory to maintain national cohesion against perceived Western critiques of Soviet legacies. Despite its prominence in Russian historical debates, the Anti-Katyn campaign receives scant attention in Western international relations analyses, which often prioritize other forms of Russian revisionism over this specific relativization tactic.

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