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Article: Mothballing Katyn confession is setback for Gorbachev
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 29, 1988
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The mothballing of Mikhail Gorbachev's plan to let the truth
about the 1940 Katyn Forest massacre be told during his Warsaw visit
was another apparent setback for his bold de-Stalinization policy,
signaling a surge of factionalism in the ruling Politburo.
Joseph Stalin's responsibility for wiping out Poland's World War
II officer corps in the Katyn woods is privately conceded by a joint
Soviet-Polish commission named to fill in tragic "blank spots" in
Soviet-Polish World War II relations. On July 8, the Polish
government all but promised that Moscow would accept blame for the
Katyn massacre in a press conference to be held three days later in
Warsaw during Mr. Gorbachev's Polish visit.
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