Kaczynski, Katyn

[Elena Gapova]

I find this message offering interesting evidence to the important topic of
"truth claims, democracy, and history".

Thank you for putting together the material that many might find useful for
research on truth and memory: how these are a part of a contemporary
controversy (in Russia and Eastern Europe) around WWII and the Soviet
victory in it.

e.g.

2010/4/11 Grover Furr-FM <furrg_nj at fastmail.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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