Kaczynski, Katyn

[John Merchant]

Dear Seelangers,

I find this posting offensive and in very poor taste.

John Merchant

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Grover Furr-FM <furrg_nj at fastmail.fm>wrote:

> 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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