michael m - "I thought Putin's government has "owned up" to the Katyn massacre" *******
Guardian, 26 Nov, 2010 Russian Parliament admits guilt Over Polish Massacre ..."Mikhail Gobachev admitted in 1990 that the NKVD was to blame for the massacre, after half a century of the Soviets blaming it on Nazi troops. However, there has never been a formal statement which implicates the Soviet leadership in such explicit terms." ************ Katynpromemoria.pl "On 13 April 1990 in Moscow Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev handed over selected documents on the Katyn Massacre to Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski. The TASS press agency issued a statement that responsibility for the Katyn Massacre lay with "Beria, Merkulov and their helpers" and that "the Soviet side, expressing its regret over the Katyn tragedy, declaring it to be one of the grave crimes of Stalinism"... "On 14 Oct 1992 special envoy of Russia's President Boris Yeltsin, Rudolf Pikhoya, handed over photocopied documents from the so-called "closed package no. 1" to President Lech Walesa in Warsaw. "The package contained documents recording the decision of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union dated 5 March 1940 to execute the POWs" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29652): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29652 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105126474/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
