| Summary: | Propaganda video produced by "Sport Studio" in Belarus, edited by the Hungarian Communist Youth Organization. Khatyn, Chatyń (Belarusian and Russian: Хаты́нь) is a village in Belarus, all of whose 149 inhabitants were burnt alive by the Nazis, with participation of Ukrainian and Belarusian collaborators from the 118th Schutzmannschaft battalion in 1943. In the Soviet Union, Khatyn became a symbol of mass killings of the civilian population. In 1969 it was named the national war memorial of the Byelorussian SSR. The symbol of the complex is a monument with three birch trees, with an eternal flame instead of a fourth tree, a tribute to the one in every four Belarusian's who died in the Second World War. In the Brezhnev era USSR, much attention was paid to this Nazi crime, presumably with the intention of driving away the attention from the Katyn massacre of Polish officers by the Soviets in 1940. The village of Khatyn was chosen and the memorial created by the Soviet authorities in a calculated policy of disinformation, designed to create confusion with the Katyn massacre.
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