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Continuing (if not accelerating) the trend of declassifying and releasing Soviet WWII archives.Russian Site: http://rusarchives.ru/publication/katyn/spisok.shtmlRussia posts Katyn massacre documents on InternetMOSCOW (AP) ? Russia's state archives posted documents on the Internet for the first time Wednesday about the Soviet Union's World War II massacre of more than 20,000 Polish officers and other prominent citizens.The step was a gesture to Poland in a case that looms large in Polish history and has soured relations between the two countries for decades.President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the documents posted on the archives' Russian-language website, reflecting a new willingness in Russia to accept responsibility for the killings at Katyn and elsewhere in 1940.Russia posts Katyn massacre documents on Interneted. note: snipped this down and added link for copyright reasons - Phid
It's about time they posted these. I guess something positive is coming out of the tragic deaths of the Polish leadershoip a few weeks ago after all.
The step was a gesture to Poland in a case that looms large in Polish history and has soured relations between the two countries for decades.President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the documents posted on the archives' Russian-language website, reflecting a new willingness in Russia to accept responsibility for the killings at Katyn and elsewhere in 1940.Relations between Russia and Poland have warmed following the tragic April 10 plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and 94 others on a flight to visit the Katyn forest in western Russia for a memorial ceremony on the 70th anniversary of the massacre.
Those sentences hit the nail right on the head. The Russians would prefer to bury this part of their history, which is understandable when you think about it.
