On 19 July 1946 , former Chief Military Prosecutor Henryk Holder wrote in the letter to the deputy chief of LWP General Marian Spychalski that " we know that the pogrom was n't only a fault of Police and Army guarding the people in and around the city of Kielce but also members of the official government who took a role in it . " One line of argument that implies external inspiration goes as follows : The 1946 referendum showed that the communists had little support and only vote rigging won them a majority in the carefully controlled poll - hence , it has been alleged that the UBP organised the pogrom to distract the Western world media 's attention from the fabricated referendum . Another argument for the incident 's use as distraction was the upcoming ruling on the Katyn massacre in the Nuremberg trials , which the communists tried to turn international attention away from , placing the Poles in an unfavourable spotlight ( the pogrom happened on 4 July , the same day the Katyn case started in Nuremberg , after the Soviet prosecutors falsely accused the Nazis of the massacre which was actually committed by the Soviets themselves in 1940 )
Katyn massacre
Katyn massacre
Kielce pogrom