The Katyn Affair: On the Journey to the Truth
An overview from a Russian historian, published in 2011 in search of more mutul understanding and restoration of Polish-Russian relationships: Inessa Sergeevna Yazhborovskaya – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Chief Researcher at the Center for Political Science and Political Sociology of the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.1
Further discussion of her intention and the reception here.
The Birth and Persistence of the Katyn Lie
A historic overview of how Soviets kept lying and spreading the lie of Katyn for decades.
This is from the Polish side – Witold Wasilewski, a Polish historian of international renown.
Katyn – Geschichte einer Lüge (Chronos-Film Dokumentation, 1993)
Film in German – Telling the Tragedy of Katyn, where the Soviet authorities murdered thousands of Polish soldiers in capitivity and the decades of lies maintained by the Soviets about this. Only in the early 1990s the Russian authorities acknowledged the truth and took responsibility in a historical sense. No one has ever been put on trial for these crimes.
This film includes historic footage of how the Soviet state was unable to take responsibility for their acts, and how they staged a huge “investigation” with falsified testimony and documents. Some of the people who contributed to the lie are telling how they feel about it in retrospect.
- Yazhborovskaya, Inessa (May 2011). Катынское дело: на пути к правде [The Katyn Affair: On the Journey to the Truth]. Questions of History (in Russian) (5): 22–35. Retrieved 30 December 2015. ↩︎