Memos are finally surfacing indicating that FDR didn't want to provoke Stalin, and he ignored evidence that the Soviets had killed 20,000 Polish officers at Katyn.
QuoteThe testimony about the infamous massacre of Polish officers might have lessened the tragic fate that befell Poland under the Soviets, some scholars believe. Instead, it mysteriously vanished into the heart of American power. The long-held suspicion is that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt didn't want to anger Josef Stalin, an ally whom the Americans were counting on to defeat Germany and Japan during World War II.
Documents released Monday and seen in advance by The Associated Press lend weight to the belief that suppression within the highest levels of the U.S. government helped cover up Soviet guilt in the killing of some 22,000 Polish officers and other prisoners in the Katyn forest and other locations in 1940.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/10/memos-suggest-us-hid-evidence-soviet-massacre-during-wwii
I heard about this on the news today. Very interesting. I am looking forward to seeing what the Russians have to say about this.
Did you read the Robert Harris novel Enigma, or see the movie based on it? The movie wasn't too good but the book was great. It told the story of an analyst at Bletchley Park who helped decode Enigma messages during WWII. She starts cracking German intercepts that show that the Germans had learned about the Soviet massacre of Poles in the Katyn forest. Then it gets into conspiracy type stuff with government cover-ups to prevent the Germans using the info for propaganda against the Soviets.
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on September 12, 2012, 04:46:18 PM
Did you read the Robert Harris novel Enigma, or see the movie based on it? The movie wasn't too good but the book was great. It told the story of an analyst at Bletchley Park who helped decode Enigma messages during WWII. She starts cracking German intercepts that show that the Germans had learned about the Soviet massacre of Poles in the Katyn forest. Then it gets into conspiracy type stuff with government cover-ups to prevent the Germans using the info for propaganda against the Soviets.
I'm pretty sure I have read it but have forgotten about the discovery of the massacre.
Quote from: LongBlade on September 12, 2012, 05:18:55 PM
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on September 12, 2012, 04:46:18 PM
Did you read the Robert Harris novel Enigma, or see the movie based on it? The movie wasn't too good but the book was great. It told the story of an analyst at Bletchley Park who helped decode Enigma messages during WWII. She starts cracking German intercepts that show that the Germans had learned about the Soviet massacre of Poles in the Katyn forest. Then it gets into conspiracy type stuff with government cover-ups to prevent the Germans using the info for propaganda against the Soviets.
I'm pretty sure I have read it but have forgotten about the discovery of the massacre.
I'll second the vote for the book. It was a great read.
Harris' other books include 'Fatherland' which follow a similar vein but is set in a post WW2 world where Germany fought the Allies to a stalemate and a 'cold war' sets in between the it and the US. The plot centers around an Arkady Renko- like police inspector who has to solve a series of murders that lead to a huge coverup.
I also enjoyed his books set in classical Roman times. The one about the water engineer in Pompei was great. (because there need to be more books with water treatment guys who are awesome.)
I have one that's unread somewhere. I wasn't aware that there are others. Too many books to read. I can only hope that there's a version of me reading one of each in spread across every Altverse iteration.