[Newsbot]

Title: Putin mourns Stalin-era massacre of Polish forces in unprecedented gesture to Poland
Category: World
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-04-07 11:17:08

[GreenTiger]

A soviet appology you have been nice, this has long been a very sore point between Poles and Russians.

[commanderkai]

Woo, that's surprising and unexpected.

[BartSimpson]

Russia is starting to learn that the more they try to dictate to their former slave-states the more those states will move away from them.

A couple years ago when Putin vehemently objected to Poland hosting a missile defense the Polish Foreign Minister said, tersely, "Mr. Putin has yet to appreciate that Polish policies are no longer dictated by Moscow."

Now with this I wonder if Russia will back off on insisting that memorials to Red Army occupiers must be maintained by the states they once victimized. The article mentions Estonia where the memorial to "The Unknown Rapist" (as the Estonians called it) was moved from a city square to a Red Army cemetary.

[martin14]

Hopefully the Russians will open at least some of the archives.