People ask me questions about Katyn warily...
say that they thought Russia still adhered to the old, Soviet, view of history.It is a paradox of the public discourse in Russia and Poland that an adequate and mutually acceptable assessment of past events, including the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, is often marred by subsequent discussion, propaganda tricks, and the media hype raised by under-qualified people who have access to the press.
The group’s objective is not to find new facts, although many historians in the group have made sensational factual discoveries in their time, but to accumulate views and approaches that can boost rapprochement between Poland and Russia. Only the truth can help with this, while lies are no use. Therefore, free access to archives is of fundamental importance, and it is something people often ask us about.
The group did not focus on the declassification of documents on Polish-Russian relations. In principle, there are no major documentary gaps regarding our relations.
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