Racism around the world

BALTIMORE, Maryland July 21, 2013-  {a work in progress} In Poland, they call it zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyński. If you wanted to compare it to something that you might be able to visualize, albeit in some macabre nightmare, think of a beheading.  But instead of a single victim, think of a country being beheaded.  That is what happened to the Polish People in zbrodnia katyńska, mord katyńsk.  Although the perpetrators of this atrocity tried to frame another evil-doer, time, forensics and more than a little bit of common sense helped find the guilty parties. What the Soviet Union did in April and May of 1940 was behead the nation that stands next to it.  Josef Stalin himself signed off on the atrocity.  The Soviets rounded up some 22,000 of the best and brightest of Poland's people: it's elite military officers, it's elite professors and engineers.  The very best that Poland had.  And they killed them in cold blood and buried their bodies in the Katyn Forest.  They tried to blame the Nazis.  They claimed - when the bodies started showing up - that the Nazi's did it when they were in full retreat and with the Soviets in hot pursuit.  There was a controversy for a while.  Then the post-Soviet Russian governments - to their credit - started opening up the sealed files and there was the Politburo itself signing off on the entire sordid and sick affair.  Even Josef Stalin himself signed the papers, not that he had the courage to carry out the evil.  Well, come to think of it, maybe Lucifer' personal emissary could have participated without batting an eye; look at the millions of other victims he has to his "credit."