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Article: The Massacre at Katyn
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 13, 1989
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OF ALL THE developments and disclosures produced by glasnost in
the Soviet Union and by its precursors and spinoffs in
Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe, perhaps none is more dramatic than a
statement made in Warsaw the other day by a spokesman of the Polish
government. He said the Soviet Union was responsible for the
massacre of Polish officers at Katyn, near Smolensk in the Soviet
Union, early in World War II.
Katyn. The word carries immense emotional and nationalistic
freight for Poles. The Soviet dictator Stalin, in the course of
subduing the part of Poland the Soviet Union grabbed in its infamous
pact with Nazi Germany in 1939, swept up some 16,000 Polish
officers-a good part of the ...