Soviet, East German Apologies
Again The Times prints an article about Soviet admission of guilt in regards to the Katyn Forest massacre of Polish officers in 1940. As we know from first-hand accounts, only 4,443 bodies of the 15,131 missing officers were ever found at that site. What happened to the others? Some have speculated that the officers were taken to the White Sea, loaded onto barges, towed out to sea and sunk by Soviet artillery. Still others have suggested that another burial mound lies elsewhere in the vastness of Russia. Perhaps this question could be posed to Mikhail Gorbachev at his upcoming summit with President Bush.
History and the Polish people deserve a more complete answer.
RICHARD J. WIDERYNSKI
Long Beach
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