This is a laudable but badly directed exhumation of a terrible massacre committed by the Soviet Communist Party in 1940.
The killing of some 15,000 Polish army officers in the Katyn forest still resonates over the country. Until the fall of Russian communism in 1989 details were unknown as to what happened to these officers, with the Russians blaming the Germans for the massacre. In 1992, Boris Yeltsin finally admitted that the massacre had been directly authorized by Joseph Stalin.
