Kaczynski, Katyn

[Grover Furr-FM]

Dear fellow listmembers:

With all the news about the death of right-wing Polish prime minister 
Lech Kaczynski who was flying to Katyn', I would like to point out that 
there is big and legitimate controversy over the official anticommunist 
line that "the Soviets did it."

Two things:

1. This is a very interesting historical controversy in and of itself!

Despite all the dishonesty involved, the political biases, etc. on _all_ 
sides, the existence of this controversy has led to the kind of 
scrupulous examination of the primary sources that one almost never sees 
in the case of questions of Soviet history.

2. This historical controversy exists almost entirely in Russian!

Western anticommunists basically ignore it altogether. So, outside of 
Russia, very few people are even aware that the Nazi - Polish 
Nationalist - anticommunist version of Katyn' is challenged by anyone.

I originally composed my page on the Katyn' controversy to explain why I 
am NOT going to get involved in this mare's nest:

http://www.tinyurl.com/katyn-furr

But it has turned out to be useful to others.

In it I give the kind of introduction and orientation on this 
controversy which it is just not possible to find anywhere else outside 
Russia.

Sincerely,

Grover Furr
Montclair SU

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