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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKatyn Forest Massacre.
During WW ll the Russans killed 22,000 members of the Polish officers corps and blamed the NAZIS. I just felt like pointing that out.
hatrack
(59,566 posts)If Stalin hated anyone more than Trotsky and his associates, it was the entire Polish nation.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,708 posts)And sometimes it makes it difficult to spell things correctly
hatrack
(59,566 posts)Nowadays I look down and count my fingers and make sure they total 10.
Then again, the concept of a Karen Forest - talk about a horrifying experience!!
Coventina
(27,052 posts)The mental image is pretty hilarious.
(Not to make light of a massacre or anything)
milestogo
(16,829 posts)was it a massacre of Karens, or by Karens?
Coventina
(27,052 posts)Karens have no regard for others.
Most other people do.
brewens
(13,536 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Scary thought! If we can find that forest and plant nice, empathetic people it would be a good thing!
WarGamer
(12,326 posts)After helping the Nazis exterminate Ukrainian Jews, Ukrainian nationalists murdered 100k Poles
hatrack
(59,566 posts)It captures the time and place (most of Eastern Europe 1920 - 1950) and its history in horrifying detail.
No nation or government came out of those years with "moral authority", even with two of history's greatest butchers in the mix.