Disgusting years of the war in Poland with graves and monuments to Soviet soldiers who fell in the great Patriotic war, has become, alas, familiar.
Recently the Polish foreign Ministry considered “obscene” than the demolition of Soviet monuments in the country with action grouping “Islamic state” (IG — banned in Russia). “Indecently”, according to Polish diplomats, not with monuments and graves to fight in a completely igilovskom style and notice it.
All this inevitably brings to mind one interesting detail from the Russo – Polish war history, about where in Warsaw do not like to remember. We are talking about cannibalism…
Since 1605, when false Dmitry I (the most common version is — monk is defrocked Grigory otrepyev), posing as the son of Ivan the terrible, managed to occupy the Royal throne, continuous disasters have become the norm in Russia. Replaced each other with new impostors, betrayal for many of the boyars had become the norm, the poles for the support of false Dmitry moved to direct intervention and conquered a large part of the country, including Moscow and the Swedes captured Novgorod.
To plough and sow was just pointless. Even if the cavalry will not tread the shoots and somehow the farmers manage to harvest, it is still someone will be taken away. Numerous troops of the warring parties, which all the time was increasing, more is needed not only in forage, provisions, and horses. Ordinary mercenaries, seeking quick wealth no less than their leaders, tortured and killed all more or less prosperous-looking people, gets in their way. Authorities in the field, able to deal with the flood of ills, almost gone.
The population is dramatically reduced. The Russian government has virtually ceased to exist.
In such a desperate situation in Nizhny Novgorod at the call of the meat merchant Kuzma Minin and began forming a militia, the head of which was Prince Dmitry Pozharsky. With the support of the still surviving by the time of the people, the militia came to Moscow.
November 4 (October 22 old style), 1612, taking the attack to China town, the militia took control of most of Moscow. But the poles, ensconced in the Kremlin, continued the resistance.
Here is how the Polish historian Kazimir valishevsky had described the manners of the besieged: “They used for cooking Greek manuscripts, finding a large and priceless collection of them in the archives of the Kremlin. Vivaria parchment, they are extracted from vegetable glue, deceiving them of painful hunger. When these sources dried up, they dug up the corpses, then began to kill their captives… they began to devour each other.
It is a fact, not subject to the slightest doubt. Witness Budzilo (Polish captain. – Ed.) reports about the last days of the siege are incredibly awful details, which could not invent, the more that largely repeated what happened in that unfortunate country a few years before during the famine. Budzilo names of persons, notes the numbers: a Lieutenant and a Haiduk ate each by two of their sons; another officer had eaten his mother! Strongest used the weak, and the healthy patients.
Were fighting over the dead, and the madness caused by violent strife were mingled with the most amazing ideas about justice. One soldier complained that people from another company ate his relative, whereas in justice they had to feed himself with his friends.
The accused relied on the right shelf at the corpse of odnopolchanina, and the Colonel decided not to end this strife, lest the losing side of the lawsuit out of revenge for the verdict does not eat the judge.”
Not coincidentally, according to the description Valishevsky, when Russian “army and the people entered into the sacred enclosure of the Kremlin… the joy was replaced by sorrow rent the soul in front of the spectacle: in the cellars of warehouses awe-inspiring food: disgusting bits, in which the imagination of some of Moscovitan pictured body parts of a friend or relative”.
But at the beginning of the siege Pozharsky offered to the poles the choice of either free return or the opportunity to do his service with a good salary, which was quite in the spirit of the time. But they chose to eat prisoners, relatives, friends and archival documents. Why? The reason is very simple: when the surrender would have to part with the loot in Muscovy. It’s hard to love money, to long to eat his friends and family, if only with gold is not to leave?!
Maybe Polish war monuments of the 21st century had something to do with cannibalism age of the 17th? Great-great-grandchildren surviving cannibals of the graves are at war, because genes require?
Maxim Capinov
