Dear Senator Durbin,
Thank you for introducing S. Res. 566 in the Senate. While I am grateful this resolution has been proposed to commemorate the victims of the Katyn Massacre, I also urge you to make certain changes in the wording. Without these changes, the resolution will not do justice to these crimes committed against a long-time US ally and supporter – Poland.
I am asking that you change the below sentence. It falsifies history, changes the gravity of the crimes and atrocities committed, and offends the memory of the Katyn victims:
“Whereas the Katyn Massacre fits into a larger pattern of Communist governments … persecuting their citizens … since the Russian Revolution of 1917.”
Please replace it with the following:
Whereas, Katyn was aimed at eliminating the very idea of Poland, to exterminate the people and the memory of the people. Katyn presents a moral crisis to this day because the moral calculus with respect to Katyn has not been worked out. Katyn represents a marker in human history that has not yet been fully inscribed;
Also, it is imperative that the Katyn Massacre be labeled honestly and properly – not as a political crime, but as a crime of genocide. I request that you label it as such by using the following language:
Therefore, we recognize that the systematic mass murders of the Polish people, conducted pursuant to the order of March 5, 1940 issued by the Soviet Politburo, raises to the level of the crime of genocide.
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