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...spirit of glasnost, the USSR agreed to establish a joint commission with Poland to investigate the massacre. This spring, the Polish delegation grew impatient with their Soviet counterparts and announced their findings independently. They blamed the Red Army...
...them. A few weeks after signing the agreement, the Red Army rolled into a Poland already prostrate from the German blitzkrieg. The Soviets deported thousands of Poles--including 14,500 officers--to Russian labor camps. Their motives are not difficult to discern; they wished to short-circuit any future Polish leadership...
Unwilling to own up to the crime but unable to conjure up a convincing alibi, the USSR hoped the problem would fade from Polish and international consciousness...
What further evidence or impulse could the USSR possibly need? The Poles know, as the Soviets must, that fifty years doesn't make a confession stale or irrelevant. Not irrelevant to the windows of the dead officers. Not to Solidarity, nor even to the Polish communist party, both of which lost potential leaders at Katyn...
...course, appeals to moral decency have rarely carried much weight with the Soviet government. But an appeal to self-interest might. Never has Polish opposition to Soviet domination been so brazen as it is today. A Soviet apology for the Katyn massacre would be an important symbolic step towards the construction of a more cooperative and less autocratic Warsaw Pact...