The treachery of the Soviets to the Poles, from the ‘39 partition, to the Katyn massacre, to holding its armies in check while the Nazis wiped out the Warsaw Uprising, to the seizure of eastern Polish territories after the war, are an indelible stain on the communist regime and its post-communist imperialist successor, Russia.
The Germans have had long, if imperfect, reckoning of the barbarity of their nation in the war. The Russians have not.
Gown can Russia be blamed for the actions of another Nation? The USSRvdid the atrocity.
Well put.
As I’ve posted before, I object to the word “genocide” being bandied about so carelessly. Katyn was a ghastly crime against humanity, a terrible massacre. But it was not genocide. The word “genocide” is robbed of its power when overused like this. The Holocaust was genocide, as were the Rwandan, Armenian and Herero genocides. Every massacre is not a genocide.
Poor Poles. First the Ukrainians massacred them in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, then came the Germans, then the Soviets at Katyn.
The Croats and the Ukrainians have not reckoned with their barbarity, either, nor have the Turks.