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I don't have a dog in this fight but I'm unconvinced by any side in this. For example the citation in wiki Dayne provided actually is from "Institute of National Remembrance", the Holocaust denying arm for the ultra-nationalist Polish state that has been attempting to revise Polish history to make all Poles look like flaming Unitarian liberals. Note, too, that the "Beria order" doesn't exist on paper and even this "Institute" fails to provide a single reference to back this up. Scholars that have sought to blame the USSR usually, as I understand it, come from very strong anti-communist backgrounds who seek to sow any trouble in Russian history at the feet of communists. Not to say they are wrong, of course, but rather there is real issue with documentation that points to too MANY culprits in what happened there. So much of this history is blinded by ideological bias I wouldn't support one side or the other. David Walters _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
