From: casey@logic.net   
      
   I think that to properly recover from communism a repressive regime is   
   required.  On the order of that which followed the Allende regime in   
   Chile.   
      
   Moyehoist wrote:   
   > Orwell lamented the failure of the intelligentsia to investigate the   
   genocides   
   > of the left - and it continues today.   
   >   
   > Not from the Newspeak Times:   
   >   
   > __________________________   
   >   
   > UNREPENTANT [Andrew Stuttaford]   
   >   
   > We hear a lot these days from the current Russian government about the wrongs   
   > that Russians suffer at the hands of Ukrainians, Balts and other nations   
   > strangely ungrateful for what Moscow did to, oh sorry, for, them in the   
   course   
   > of the Twentieth Century, but this story shows just how seriously the world   
   > should take those complaints.   
   >   
   > It begins with the mass murder by the Soviets of thousands of Polish officers   
   > at Katyn in 1940, a crime that was nothing less than an exercise in social   
   and   
   > cultural genocide, a savage attempt to decapitate Polish society. Warsaw has   
   > long wanted an accounting. Moscow has long responded with lies and evasion.   
   Not   
   > enough, it seems, has changed.   
   >   
   > ”Kieres, head of Poland's Institute for National Remembrance of the War,   
   came   
   > to Moscow this week with Polish war crimes prosecutors. He was cruelly   
   > disappointed. Russian prosecutors told him that the crimes took place too   
   long   
   > ago to be acted upon and refused to even divulge how many of the suspects   
   were   
   > still alive. While promising to share some information with Warsaw, the   
   > Russians insisted that the crime could not be classified as genocide, a move   
   > that would allow prosecutions to go ahead. The Polish side was furious. "This   
   > was genocide, whether they want to call it that or not. That is the reality,   
   > the painful reality for us and for them," Anna Wolinska, who lost her father   
   > and uncle in the massacres, told TV Polonia."   
   >   
   > As the Independent points out, this is the second Russian insult to the Poles   
   > in as many second weeks. Another of the squalid chapters in the Soviet   
   > Union’s very mixed record between 1939 and 1945 was the decision of the   
   > nearby Red Army to watch passively as the Germans crushed the Warsaw Rising   
   in   
   > 1944. Conveniently for Stalin, the slaughter of yet more of Poland’s best   
   and   
   > brightest by the Nazis removed another obstacle to the communist takeover of   
   > Poland that he had planned for so long.   
   >   
   > Moscow is also refusing to apologize for this betrayal of a supposedly allied   
   > country. Russia’s foreign ministry merely contents itself with the comment   
   > that it considers " it inappropriate and blasphemous to the memory of the   
   > fallen to get into public polemics on this score." In reality, of course, it   
   is   
   > the failure of the current Russian leadership to acknowledge the horrors of   
   the   
   > Soviet past that is the real blasphemy.   
   >   
   > A Soviet Nuremberg remains long overdue. Without it, Russia can never truly   
   > become a ‘normal’ country.   
   >   
   > --------------------   
   >   
   > Thanks to Stuttaford and NRO -  the corner   
   > http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp   
   > bmp   
      
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