Acording to Diana West In her book: “American Betrayal” reveales the Desecration of Justice as guilty Russian Judges remained silent as Russia had done as much or more against humanity as the Germans did. Józef Stalin personally decided to murder Polish prisoners of war, at the request of the People’s Commissioner of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union, Lavrentiy Beria. The Massacre of 22,000 Polish Officers at the Katyn Forest was carried out at Stalins order.

Some of the victims, Polish prisoners of war, were treated as “enemies of the Soviet authorities filled with hatred for the Soviet system of government.” that was done without any formal charges, without investigation, without any indictment and without any trial. Thesa were indeed “Crimes Against Humanity” and were covered up at the now infamous Trials at Nuremberg which not only covered u Russia and Stalins guilt but included Soviet Judges as some of the Judges at Nuremberg. .

According to Soviet documents released after 1990, the number of victims of the 5 March 1940 decision includes 21,857 Polish internees, 4,421 of which came from the Kozelsk camp, 3,820 from the Starobelsk camp, 6,311 from the Ostashkov camp, and 7,305 from prisons in Belorussia and Ukraine. (…) Altogether, during the April and May 1940 massacres, the Soviets murdered almost half of the Polish officer corps, including 14 generals, 281 colonels and lieutenant colonels, and 2,080 majors and captains (….) [T]he Soviets murdered Generals Bronisław Bohatyrewicz, Henryk Minkiewicz and Mieczysław Smorawiński, Admiral Ksawery Czernicki, Chief Orthodox Chaplain of the Polish Army Symon Fedoronko, Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army Baruch Steinberg, and a single woman, Jadwiga Lewandowska, who was daughter to General Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki.

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If the Allies had pressed the Russians about the murders, maybe Germany would still have been defeated. After the horrific events that had transpired between the Germans and Russians during the war, it seems very unlikely that Stalin would have ever returned to the bargaining table
with Hitler. If the Soviets had been held accountable for the deaths, and the crimes had been brought to light, public opinion could have prevented the territorial concessions made to the Soviets by the British and Americans. Much
of Eastern Europe could have possibly been spared the tyranny and terror that it suffered under Soviet domination in the second half of the twentieth century. However, in the discipline of history, dwelling on the “what ifs” can lead  one down a myriad of useless paths. The fact is, that Great Britain and the United States took actions during the duress of war that in hindsight appears to be a moral failure on their part, but to them, at the time, seemed the only logical course. As the popular saying goes, “Do not mourn the
dead, mourn the living!” Perhaps it was believed that since nothing could be done to change the fate of the dead officers, allowing the Soviet crime to go unpunished could result in a stronger Allied alliance, the ending of World War II, and the potential achievement of the “greater good.”

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