re: Katyn

I don’t believe in reparations for the sins of past generations. Today’s Russians are absolved as far as I am concerned. However, when the refuse to accept responsibility, and indeed teach their kids that it was legal and justified, well, then they’ve just bought a whole load of guilt. It might as well have happened yesterday, and every Russian, particularly those in uniform buys the title of “murderous thug”, as though they held the NKVD handguns.

That’s the problem with dishonor; it’s a hard to redeem. The Russians have lot of it on their hands, and they’ve just told us all “Yeah?? Well, wait until you see us do it again! Here, little Ivan, let me teach you about the birds and the bees and the glory of the NKVD in criminal Poland ….”.