| Notes | 'Resolution \'On the Katyn Tragedy and Its Victims\' (26 Nov 2010).\nThe draft resolution was presented by United Russia MP Konstantin Kosachev, a kandidat of historical sciences and head of Duma committee on international affairs. Kosachev called the document \'a moment of truth for every one of us\'. He stressed that in society, even in scholarly world, there was no integrated attitude towards Kastyn issue or to certain moments and personalities from our history. \'All the more important it is for all of us to rely on the opinion of authoritative scholarly institutes, on archival materials, on the decisions of judicial organs. And it was precisely such materials there were used by both the Pres of R and the Chair of Govt of R, who drew conclusion that the guilt of the leadership of the S/U for the Katyn tragedy, for the shootings of thousand of Polish and Soviet citizens in the Smolensk forests must be acknowledged by contemporary Russia. Probably, it would be easier and more profitable not to do this, after all most likely we\'ll never get all the informaiton.\' etc...\nKosachev said: \'Having lost 27 million in the Great Patriotic War, we don\'t always manage to comprehend why those thousands of Poles shot by the stalinist regime 70 years ago still zasloniaiut in the consciousness of simple people in Poland much else. After all in history there was also the mass death in Polish camps of Red Army prisoners-of-war in the \'20s in numbers no less than the Katyn victims. There was also the battle brotherhood of the soviet and polish soldier in the struggle with fascisim. And those who shamefully remove from the screens the film \'Four tankists and a dog\' are not right either - this is also in many ways the truth, just as there is also truth in Andrzej Wajda\'s film \'Katyn\'. Historically and morally it is injjust to separate one truth from another.\'.\nWhy Katyn in particular, he asked, remains a weeping wound in the soul of Poles who managed to forgive other peoples? And he answered: for them, the lies that reigned for decades are offensive... Kosachev cited the famous Christian postulate \'That which is hidden shall become known\' and called upon his collegaues to close down the problem of Katyn, having honoured the memory of its victim and condemned the perpetrators.'
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