Lukashenka promises to look for Belarusian Katyn list, while historian refers to Russia

The Belarusian leader gave such a promise on November 4 at the meeting with the Polish journalists, which lasted for more than three hours. The journalists touched on a topic of the Belarusian Katyn list, which included the names of about four thousand Poles, killed by NKVD at the Belarusian territory in 1940.  Aliaksandr Lukashenka promised to talk about this list with the head of the Belarusian KGB. However, he warned many documents had been transferred to Moscow. 

A historian Ihar Kuzniatsou thinks that Belarus will have to make an enquiry to Russia to obtain the Belarusian list. The point is, it has not been officially declared whether this list remained in Belarus or was destroyed. 

Kuzniatsou: “The list can be in the Belarusian KGB. If we suppose it was destroyed when the war started in 1941, or transferred to the FSB security service central archive.... in this case Belarus will have to make an official enquiry to Russia, namely, to the FSB, so that the list will be presented to Poland due to Belarus' initiative. If Russia haven't done this so far”.

Mr. Kuzniatsou reminded Russia had planned to present the Belarusian Katyn list to Poland in connection with the 70th anniversary of Katyn tragedy. However, it failed to do so due to some reasons.