Question re Hatyn'

[Alina Israeli]

I've been to this museum http://khatyn.by/  some 30 years ago. I 
presume there were other villages that disappeared during WWII under 
German occupation that could have been used for a memorial site. Yet 
to make Khatyn' a memorial museum site is a rather shameless act on 
the part of the Soviet government. The Katyn forest massacres, as 
they are known, we conducted by the Soviet authorities against Polish 
citezens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre.

What alternative opinion could there be: who killed whom?

Alina Israeli

>Dear all,
>
>I have a question, inspired by the following.
>
>Currently, a part of the Russian and Belarusian livejournal 
>community is discussing the letter, allegedly sent by a Canadian 
>professor to the developers of the Hatyn' website. Hatyn' is a 
>Belarusian village burnt in 1943; in the 1970s, the place was turned 
>into a memorial dedicated to more than 200 Belarusian villages burnt 
>during WWII. It is a painful and powerful monument. Elem Klimov's 
>film "Idi i smotri" was inspired by the Hatyn' story. The site is 
>here: http://khatyn.by/
>The letter ( http://folder.livejournal.com/102683.html ) allegedly reads:

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Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
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Washington, DC 20016

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