Mikhail Gorbachev hands files to Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski detailing the deaths of 21,000 Polish soldiers executed by the NKVD in 1940 – the first time the Soviet government admitted responsibility for the Katyn Massacre, 13 April 1990 [1000×656]
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The presentation came on the 50th anniversary of the massacres. With further investigations, renewed exhumation of the bodies from mass graves in Russia began in 1991 and again sporadically through the 1990s.
Note Jaruzelski’s darkened glasses – not a fashion statement, he and his family were themselves deported to Siberia in 1941 by Soviet authorities, where he subsequently developed photokeratitis/ snow blindness which permanently damaged his eyes. Still Jaruzelski later became an army general and political leader in communist Poland.
Mikhail Gorbachev. Say what you want about him. A few years ago I saw a video on YouTube of him talking to a group of people sitting in a big room. You could tell that it’s a back room to a parliament building or something so it was probably parliament members. It was subtitled in English. And I swear this man is such an eloquent speaker it’s mesmerizing. I listened to him speak to them for over an hour. Everyone in the room was sat there just listening to this flow of speech, and you could tell that there was an important issue that they were not happy about and he is trying to diffuse the situation and man!, was he successful. By the end of it. No one was saying anything. They all seemed very convinced. It was like a master class in political science. If someone knows about this or has seen this video please shed more light on it. I don’t know anything about Russian politics