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...past, Katyn signified mass murder committed in 1940 in a forest just west of the Russian town of Smolensk by troops of the Soviet Union, who killed defenseless Polish prisoners of war. The victims of the atrocity accounted for much of Poland's military as well as intellectual elite. The second Katyn tragedy - the April 10 crash on the approach to Smolensk airport of a plane carrying dignitaries to a ceremony commemorating that very 1940 massacre - led to the death of nearly 100 of the top political personalities of a newly independent, and once again democratic, Poland. Those who died...
...possible that future historians will see in these combined events - and especially in the consequence of the second one - the beginning of a truly significant turning point in Polish-Russian relations. Should that come to pass, it would represent a geopolitical change in Europe of genuinely historic proportions. (Read more about the Polish-Russian relations...
...added that the Polish Society is currently negotiating with the Office of the University Marshal to hang a Polish flag with a black ribbon on the flag pole adjacent to the John Harvard statue...
Kozak said that he also planned to light candles in front of the plaques of two Polish heroes in Cambridge Common...
Despite their grief, most Polish students showed optimism about both Poland’s domestic stability and the country’s ability to recover from the tragedy...