Putin mourns Stalin-era massacre of Polish forces in unprecedented gesture to Poland

World | 206752 hits | Apr 07 11:17 am | Posted by: Hyack

MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended a memorial ceremony on Wednesday for 22,000 Polish prisoners who were killed by Soviet secret police during World War II in an unprecedented gesture of good will and reconciliation to Poland.

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by GreenTiger
Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:29 pm
A soviet appology you have been nice, this has long been a very sore point between Poles and Russians.
by commanderkai
Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:38 pm
Woo, that's surprising and unexpected.
by BartSimpson
Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:51 pm
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.
by martin14
Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:54 pm
Hopefully the Russians will open at least some of the archives.

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