Kaczynski, Katyn

[Robert Orr]

Jules might be referring to material in Maurice Shainberg's "Breaking with 
the KGB" which came out in paperback about twenty years ago (I have a copy 
somewhere ...)


> 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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