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...confession would be a relatively painless gesture for the USSR and a matter of national pride for the Poles...
...wouldn't be difficult. Difficult would be cutting Poland free from the strangling grasp of the Warsaw Pact. Difficult would be resuscitating the Polish economy after years of stale communist leadership. Difficult would be restoring Polish self-confidence after a half-century of subjugation...
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...
...chic. Adding another item to Stalin's list of atrocities is unlikely to provoke a conservative reaction, especially when the defense is so untenable. And with the recent Soviet acceptance of the binding decisions of the World Court, including its 1948 condemnation of genocide, Moscow's confession would be timely...
...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...