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Recently in historiography the name of Boris Georgievich Menshagin (1902-1984) - a very interesting person with a unique destiny - has come up more and more often. A successful Smolensk lawyer in the pre-war years, burgomaster of Smolensk and Bobruisk during the years of German occupation, sentenced to 25 years in prison, the author of the most interesting in historical terms testimonies, left both during the investigation and imprisonment, and after his release. The famous Stalinist formula is quite applicable to his fate, but with a slight modification: not "Isolate, but preserve!", but "Preserve, but isolate!". As burgomaster of Smolensk, he became an unwitting hostage of the Katyn tragedy and scam - the shooting of Polish prisoners of war by NKVD officers in the spring of 1940, the discovery of traces of this crime by the Germans in the spring of 1943, and the USSR's attempt to shift responsibility for it to the Third Reich at the Nuremberg Tribunal in the summer of 1946: it was Menshagin's "testimony" falsified by the Chekists that formed the basis of the "evidence base" of the inglorious Soviet prosecution.
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