30 November 2017
My father Bolesław Borkowski, son of Bronisław, born 1920 in Krejwańce, Oszmiana county, deserted from the Communist army on 13 January 1945, before the scheduled military oath, which took place on 14 January 1945 in Rzeszów. This is a response of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus to the diplomatic note of the Polish Embassy in Minsk no. 31-D-259-96 on 5 September 1996.
The second page of the letter contains information that on 22 December 1995 the Supreme Court of Belarus considered the rehabilitation of Bolesław Borkowski and others tried by the NKVD War Tribunal. The rehabilitation has been denied and the original NKVD sentence was upheld.
This is a very significant statement, because it validates the Communist narrative as the official state narrative of Belarus. While Polish state organs are less keen on proclaiming allegiance to the Communist narrative so openly, they do it in a de facto manner in their day-to-day activities.
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