NJ GOP State Committeeman Joshua Sotomayor Einstein Speaks at Katyn Massacre Memorial Service

Jersey City, September 14 – New Jersey GOP State Committeeman from Hudson County, Joshua Sotomayor Einstein spoke at the Katyn Massacre Memorial Service in Jersey City on Saturday at 3pm. The memorial service was held at the Katyn Massacre Memorial Statue in Exchange Place and was well attended by over 200 people. The memorial service, an annual commemoration, was organized by the Katyn Forest Massacre Memorial Committee.

The service commemorated the over 22,000 victims murdered in cold blood by the USSR in 1940 at the Katyn forest. In the beginning of World War 2, the Soviet Union and National Socialist Germany were allies and together divided Poland and other areas of Eastern Europe. In the 1940 Katyn massacre, the USSR executed Polish commissioned and non-commissioned officers, elected officials, community leaders, and intelligentsia. As Poland was a multi-ethnic democracy prior to World War 2, and its army as diverse as its population, victims included ethnic Ukrainian, Belarussian, and Jewish Polish citizens including Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army, Baruch Steinberg.

“It’s important the world remember that the tyranny, invasion, and occupation, that began in World War 2 didn’t end for the peoples of Eastern Europe until after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the collapse of the socialist puppet regimes of Warsaw Pact countries,” said Einstein. He continued, “people often forget that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was allied with Nazi Germany, partitioned Eastern Europe with them, and that their alliance only ended when the USSR was invaded by the Nazi’s.”