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SUMMARY:SCREENING: The General: The Gibraltar Assassination (Poland\, 2009
 ) - Dr. Matilda Mroz (Dept. of Slavonic Studies)
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CONTACT:Matilda Mroz
DESCRIPTION:***Europe East and West: Film\, History\, and Mourning*** \n\n
 The General: The Gibraltar Assassination \nDir. Anna Jadowska\, Poland\, 2
 009. \n\nGibraltar\, 4 June 1943: General Sikorski\, the Commander-in-Chie
 f of the Polish forces\, is killed when his plane crashes into the sea sev
 eral seconds after taking off. He had been a guest of the British Governor
 . Despite the suspicious circumstances surrounding the crash\, and an inab
 ility to determine its cause\, the investigating British forces resolutely
  declare it an accident. \n\nHistorian Dariusz Baliszewski has spent the p
 ast fifteen years collecting archival documents and questioning key witnes
 ses. His conclusion: Sikorski had become a threat to the Soviet-British al
 liance. He refused to accept Stalin’s denial that he had massacred thous
 ands of Polish officers in Katyn in 1940\, and may have been in possession
  of documents that would also have damaged the reputation of Britain. Ther
 e was no “accident” in Gibraltar: the plane was loaded with bodies alr
 eady killed at the palace by hostile Polish agents. \n\nThis innovative an
 d startling film reconstructs how the last days of Sikorski’s life would
  have looked like if Baliszewski’s theories are correct. \n\nThis screen
 ing will be followed by a paper on the 18th May: Dr. Matilda Mroz (Dept. o
 f Slavonic Studies)\n‘Restless bodies\, buried texts: Sikorski\, The Gen
 eral\, and the archive’\n\n
LOCATION:Keynes Hall\, King's College\, Cambridge
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