Kaczynski, Katyn

[ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET]

At 06:45 PM 4/11/2010, you wrote:
>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.

Well, the game was given away when Tovarishch Furr identified 
Kaczynski as "right-wing" before any other identifier--nationality,
title...  I'll bet even the NY Times did not begin its story with 
"right-wing Polish..."

PS  Among other evidence for what happened, about 20 or so years ago 
there appeared in Israel a manuscript in Yiddish
by anonymous who claimed to be the second-in-command KGB guy at the 
massacre.   He was a newly arrived immigrant, and
wanted to get it off his chest.   Authentic?  Maybe not, but it seems 
an awful lot of trouble to go to, to forge a ms. in Yiddish, and for 
what purpose actually?  As I recall, according to this report, the 
army doctor among the Polish officers was also Jewish.
Jules Levin
Los Angeles

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