Russians not to blame for Katyn massacre – Putin | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the Russian people could not be blamed for the events in Katyn where thousands of Polish POWs were massacred by Soviet forces in WWII.
‘For decades, attempts have been made to cover up the truth about the Katyn executions with cynical lies, but suggesting that the Russian people are to blame for that is the same kind of lie and fabrication,’ he said.
Putin and his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk took part in a memorial service for the Katyn massacre in the Smolensk Region of western Russia.
Putin said the Polish and Russian peoples should preserve the memory of the past, ‘however bitter the truth could be.'”