Recent months have seen remarkable events and developments in the legacy of Katyn, the village in the woods of western Russia where, in April 1940, Stalin’s secret police shot some twenty-two thousand Polish military officers. Those killings have bedeviled relations between the two countries ever since. Most of the officers killed at Katyn were not career military but reservi (...)
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The Ultimate Crime
Katyn & the Invention of Genocide
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Luckily Netflix rents the film, "Katyn" because it never made it to commercial distribution in the U.S. Maybe a little in New York, but not in Washington, where a group of us who had served in Poland back in the days when one couldn't really talk about Katyn live. We have been very disappointed that this incredible film has not been shown to the general public.
Thank you for the excellent article on the horror of Katyn woods. It raises once more the importance of never forgetting and honoring the loss of innocents.