Thursday, January 6, 2011
Relevance of a Source for my Topic
One of the sources I will be using is a publication by The Economist. Relatively short, it gets to its point quite rapidly and concisely. In summary, it shows the significance of Russians denying involvement in slaughtering 20,000 Polish intelligencia, claiming that the Nazis did it, by comparing it to a highly-ranked German official claiming that the Holocaust never happened. Published in 2008, the author claims that the random insurgence of mainstream denial of the mass killings isn't from Polish provocation. S/he states that this was done during a time when Poland was "bending over backwards" to alleviate relations with Moscow, although it seems as if it is a lost cause.
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wow. That's really troubling. I wonder why so many Russians insist that they didn't do it? It reminds me of Russian reactions to criticism of mass rape by soldiers in Hungary and Germany in 1945. I suppose that a proud people doesn't like to be told it's guilty of crimes.
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