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Glenn Kissack said:
The S&D article addresses this:
By 1992 the Soviet, and then the Russian, governments had officially declared
the Stalin-era Soviet leadership guilty of shooting somewhere between 14,800
and 22,000 Polish prisoners to death in April and May 1940. This was agreeable
to anticommunists and a bone in the throat for some pro-Soviet people. For a
few years it did appear that the matter was basically settled. The evidence
seemed clear: the Soviets had shot the Poles.
The author then goes on to show that several Russian writers began to question
the verdict and discovered archival information throwing the official version
into question. Take a look, it’s interesting.
Ken Hiebert replies:
We have rather quickly reached the limit of my knowledge of this issue. Until
today I could not have told you where Katyn is. Based on what has appeared on
this list and what we can read on Wikipedia I think we can agree that these
officers were in the Soviet Union as prisoners of the Soviet government. If it
was the Nazis who carried out the massacre, my first question would be how did
these officers become prisoners of the Nazis?
In any case, my thanks to those who have drawn our attention to the article in
Socialism and Democracy.
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