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...that were once part of the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact; many viewed the defeat of Nazism as simply a change of occupier. "We cannot pretend that May 9 was a day of liberty and independence for Poland," said Donald Tusk, leader of Poland's center-right Platforma Obywatelska. "For Poland the fight against Hitlerism and communism ended only in 1989." Rather than V-E day, Poles are more likely to recall the 1940 massacre of over 21,000 Polish officers at Katyn, in western Russia, a crime that Moscow acknowledged only in the Gorbachev era. Latvian President Vaira...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bittersweet Celebration | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

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