Kaczynski, Katyn

[Julia Trubikhina]

 Grover, I find that Polish tragedy is really not the time to come up with your usual Stalinist theories. This is unethical and in poor taste, imho.
    
As to the Katyn affair, there is no mystery there: the biggest part of the archival materials had been revealed and passed on to Poland by Yeltsin (he, BTW, offered apologies). The only controversy that remains is what does not allow the Katyn affair to proceed as a criminal case: Russia's refusal so far to turn over the actual lists of names of the officers slain in Katyn. All of this is FACT, not some kind of conspiracy theory. Put it to rest already.
    
Julia
  
 

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Julia Trubikhina, PhD
Hunter College, CUNY
  
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Grover Furr-FM <furrg_nj at FASTMAIL.FM>
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Sent: Sun, Apr 11, 2010 9:20 am
Subject: [SEELANGS] Kaczynski, Katyn


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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