Dear Editor,
Michael Day is right to draw on the past history of mass executions by Russia when referring to the killings in Ukraine "Russia's sheer brutality an all-too-familiar trait" "i" 05.04.2022). It is not just the executions with hands tied behind their backs and a bullet in the back of the head that link up Bucha, Grozny and the mass executions of 22,000 Polish officers and civic leaders in 1940 in the Katyn Forest and other sites in Russia. There is also the persistence of denial and lies that go with it. The truth about the Katyn atrocities was denied by successive Russian governments until 1990. Russia has an unenviable record both of massacre and mendacity that goes back more than a century.
Yours faithfully,
Wiktor Moszczynski
Spokesman
Federation of Poles in Great Britain
Sent to "i" on 4th April
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