Katyn Forest
Sir,—History records that 15,000 Polish officers were massacred by Soviets in the Katyn Forest. One remained alive. His name is Professor Stanislaw Swaniewicz. He lives in London. He has recalled how, every few days through the month of April, 1940, the names of those to be executed were dictated by telephone from Moscow. His own turn came on April 29, 1940. His life was spared because he had written an economic study of the German’ Reich of interest to Soviet intelligence. For communists, the massacre was a routine affair — the decapitation of a nation’s leaders on a class basis. Those who use these columns to turn the story, every story, in favour of the Soviets cannot obliterate this evidence. It is oral history, recorded by the 8.8. C., and published under the title, “The Eagle and the Small Birds.”—Yours, etc., SUE HUNT. July 4, 1986.
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