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Article: Exhuming a Massacre; Poland Blames Katyn Killings on Soviets
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- The Washington Post
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- February 17, 1989
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Poland's communist authorities today signaled a turning point in
one of the most sensitive and emotional issues of the country's
relationship with the Soviet Union, as a state newspaper published an
authoritative document placing the blame for the World War II "Katyn
massacre" of at least 4,200 Polish officers on Soviet forces.
The weekly Odrodzenie, which is published by a communist-run
political front, appeared today with a banner headline announcing a
previously secret 1945 Polish Red Cross report that points to
Moscow's responsibility for a crime that for 46 years it has denied
committing. It was the first time Poland's communist authorities had
allowed publication of evidence ...