The Economist reports on an ominous sign of official Russian backsliding. After the fall of Soviet Communism, the new Russian government admitted that Stalin's secret police had killed 40,000 Polish officers in Katyn forest, not the Nazis as Stalin claimed.
Now Putin's government is back to peddling the party line.
Read the column in the Economist for how ominous this is.
Curiously, this incident (Katyn) just came up in a World History seminar this afternoon.
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