September 5, 2007
FDR'S PALS:
Remebering the Katyn massacre (Michal Kubicki, 9/05/07, Polish Radio)
Some 22 thousand Polish officers were taken prisoner by the Red Army when the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland in September 1939, 17 days after the Nazi attack on Poland. On orders from Stalin, the Poles were shot in the Katyn forest. The crime was revealed by the Nazis in 1943 but the Soviet Union blamed Hitler’s Germany for the massacre.Posted by Orrin Judd at September 5, 2007 4:15 PMAndrzej Wajda’s film is not a historical account of the tragedy but draws psychological portraits of a group of mothers, wives and daughters of Polish officers. One of the most eagerly awaited Polish films in several decades, it is preceded by a nationwide campaign about Katyń and its place in Polish history.
There is an unbelievable report on Katyn written by a British governmental official that can be found in the collected FDR-Churchill correspondence (It was included because one of Churchill's messages made reference to it, although President Roosevelt did not reply). I don't remember which of the three volumes it was in but it's probably listed in the index.
Run, don't walk, to your nearest library and check it out. It's stunning.
Posted by: Matt Murphy at September 5, 2007 9:52 PMOnly divine intervention allowed us to survive this monster.
Posted by: erp at September 6, 2007 9:23 AMNaturally, I refer to FDR.
Posted by: erp at September 6, 2007 5:37 PM