Question re Hatyn'

[Tatyana Buzina]

Aren't Khatyn' and Katyn' two different places?
Khatyn' - byvshaia derevnia Logoiskogo raiona Minskoi oblasti Belarusi (from the Khatyn' site)
Katyn' is in the Smolensk region in Russia. There's also a memorial there now.



>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:


-- 
Tatyana V. Buzina,
Associate Professor, Chair,
Dpt. of European Languages,
Institute for Linguistics,
Russian State U for the Humanities

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