Kaczynski, Katyn

[Donna Seifer]

I urge everyone to view Andrzej Wajda's film "Katyn".  It is available
through Netflix.  Please also watch the special feature interview with the
director.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyń_(film)

Donna Seifer


> From: <ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET>
> Reply-To: "SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list"
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> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:06:12 -0700
> To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Kaczynski, Katyn
> 
> 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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