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Article: The Polish Deportees of World War II: Recollections of Removal to the Soviet Union and Dispersal Throughout the World.(Book review)
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- Sarmatian Review
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- January 1, 2006
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Edited by Tadeusz Piotrowski. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2004. 248 pages. ISBN 0-7864-1847-8. Hardcover. $45.00.
After the Second World War, the world press permanently documented the horrors of the Nazis, while the Nuremberg trials revealed a view of evil that haunted the international community for years to come. At the same time, Soviet evils were largely ignored. As an international prosecutor at Nuremberg the Soviet Union blocked an attack against itself. At Nuremberg no mention was made of the Soviet purges or of the Soviet deportation of Poles into the wastelands of Russia. It seemed that Katyn, among other incidents, was buried forever. The dismissal was ...