The Katyń Memorial is dedicated to the victims of the Katyn Massacre in 1940. Created by Polish-American sculptor Andrzej Pitynski, the memorial stands at Exchange Place in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Unveiled in June 1991, a 34 feet tall bronze statue of a soldier, gagged and bound, impaled in the back by a bayoneted rifle, stands atop a granite base containing Katyn soil. It commemorates the massacre of 14,000+ Polish POW's and 7,000+ Belarusian and Ukranian prisoners by the Soviet NKVD in April and May 1940 after Soviet troops had invaded eastern Poland by order of Joseph Stalin.
Interestingly, a plaque commemorating the 9/11/2001 attacks was affixed to the memorial (I don't know when this happened). The plaque shows a woman/goddess weeping as she cradles the burning Twin Towers in her arms, with a small likeness of the Katyn statue itself in the foreground. Kind of sinister, comparing the Katyn military executions to the 9/11 attacks. The comparison is probably closer to the truth than what we hear in the mainstream media.
Memorials
Links: en.wikipedia.org
By: tuttleberry
