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Full Text Articles Basic Political Developments RIA: Poland hails Russian plans to commemorate WWII Katyn massacre
http://en.rian.ru/world/20100204/157769485.html
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WARSAW, February 4 (RIA Novosti) - The Kremlin's invitation to Poland's premier to attend events to mark the massacre of thousands of Polish POWs by Soviets forces in WWII is an important step in the improvement of bilateral ties, the senate speaker said on Thursday.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin invited his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk on Wednesday to attend a memorial service in April to mark the 1940 massacre. Tusk confirmed his participation in the event later in the day.
Bogdan Borusewicz said it was "an important signal from the Kremlin," and complicated bilateral ties "are increasingly improving." Borusewicz will visit Moscow on February 9 at the invitation of his Russian counterpart, Sergei Mironov.
Over 20,000 Polish officers, police and civilians taken prisoner during the 1939 partitioning of Poland by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were killed in western Russia's Katyn forest, as well as in prisons and other locations, by the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB.
The Soviet Union acknowledged the massacre in 1990. Modern Russia also recognized Soviet responsibility for the mass shooting, but has not classified it as a war crime, something Warsaw has demanded.
The two Slavic nations have recently been at odds over Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's 1939 deal with Nazi Germany, which Warsaw says triggered the invasion of Poland and the start of WWII.
Putin moved to heal the rift over the massacre and the 1939 deal when he visited Poland in September to mark the 70th anniversary of its invasion. He called the killings "a crime" but urged "forgiveness." He said all European countries bear their share of responsibility for the outbreak of the war.
Warsaw Business Journal: Putin to be first Russian leader to honor Katyń dead
http://www.wbj.pl/article-48336-putin-to-be-first-russian-leader-to-honor-katyn-dead.html?typ=wbj
4th February 2010
Donald Tusk will join Russian PM in an event to commemorate victims of Stalinist massacre
In an historic move, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has invited Polish counterpart Donald Tusk to a joint Polish-Russian commemoration of the Stalinist massacre of Polish prisoners at Katyń.
Mr Putin will be the first Russian leader to visit the cemetery at the site.
The crime has cast a shadow over Polish-Russian relations for decades. After years of Soviet denials, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin admitted that the massacre was carried out by Stalin's forces.
Even so, some in Russia still insist that it was Germany that carried out the mass murder.
"The invitation has a symbolic dimension," said Mr Tusk. "For the first time the premiers of Poland and Russia will jointly commemorate the anniversary of the Katyń atrocity. the participation of Premier Putin in the ceremonies for the anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, and now this invitation generate hope that our discussion about the history of Poland and Russia will slowly but consequently continue. And also that Polish-Russian relations will improve."
Source: Gazeta Wyborcza
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