Kaczynski, Katyn

[Stefan Pugh]

With all due respect, I can't believe what I'm reading.  I am not a political animal, but I do have a great interest in history, and in trying to get at the "truth."   But there IS no longer any controversy about Katyn'.  If the original message (below) was entirely tongue-in-cheek, then I apologize for not recognizing this (and by the way, Kaczynski was PRESIDENT of Poland).  The whole matter is simply one more awful, terrible episode in what was WWII.  Yes, let's try and move forward!  But please, it is just not worthy of a serious list serve if contributors start going off half-cocked from whatever ideological position they occupy.  Freedom of speech is wonderful, and let's protect it: but let's exercise some self-restraint.

----- Original Message -----
From: Grover Furr-FM <furrg_nj at FASTMAIL.FM>
Date: Sunday, April 11, 2010 10:33 am
Subject: [SEELANGS] Kaczynski, Katyn
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu

> 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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