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Article: KAYTN DOCUMENTS PRESENTED TO POLES.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 14, 1990
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Byline: New York Times
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev on Friday gave Poland's President Wojciech Jaruzelski cartons of documents the Soviet leader said "indirectly but convincingly" proved the Soviet secret police killed thousands of Polish officers in Katyn Forest in the spring of 1940.
"It is not easy to speak of this tragedy, but it is necessary," said Gorbachev, as the Soviet government for the first time officially and publicly accepted responsibility for this long-denied crime of the Stalinist regime in the thick pine and birch forests.
Jaruzelski said: "The Soviet statement about the crime of Katyn is, for our people, especially ...