People ask me questions about Katyn warily...

(The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre, was the mass murder of thousands of Polish prisoners of war, primarily military officers, as well as intellectuals, policemen and other public servants, by the Soviet secret police, NKVD, in 1940.)

The fact of the massacre cannot be contested, and so the problem is not factual but psychological.

Katyn is a high-profile issue politically and emotionally, above all in Poland. But although it may sound cynical, it is not a difficult problem for historians.

For several decades now, the reality of the tragedy that took place at Katyn has been clear to anyone interested in history, rather than political speculation. The goal of our group is to encourage a unity of views of historical problems. I would say that we have achieved this with regard to Katyn: the upcoming meeting of the Russian and Polish prime ministers in early April can be seen as the result of the group’s success in the de-politicization

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