Hello Alexander,

 RB>>>> They didn't hang Stalin or even Beria because of Katyn either.
 RB>>>> Although both deserved that. There's a lot of injustice in this
 RB>>>> world that only rarely is sanctioned.

 ak>>> Bad if it the USSR was indeed responsible; but the killed were
 ak>>> soldiers after all.

 RB>> Neither Stalin nor Beria personally pulled the trigger of the
 RB>> pistols used to murder the Poles in the woods of Katyn. But Hitler
 RB>> also never personally killed anyone in WWII. Is there really a
 RB>> difference?

 RB>> The Poles were intellecutals, educated peoplele and the cream of
 RB>> Polish civilation. And the purpose was to destroy polish
 RB>> civilazation except for the lowest levels, who could still be used
 RB>> as slaves. Nothing else than the Nazis intended.

 ak> IMHO military offices are always and everywhere dull-witted, often stupid,
 ak> unintellectual people and they cannot represent any civilization.

Road sign in Poland: "Roundabout."
Extra sign added: "No more than three times."

 ak> Besides, the Pols are very shy of another story that had
 ak> happened a couple decades before. And in this story can be a key.

You can make a lot of money selling snails in Poland, because
few Poles can catch them.

 ak> It happened after the Russian revolution. In Soviet Russia there was a
 ak> big havoc, both in the country and in its army forces. Poland used that
 ak> situation and shamelessly captured  vast chunks of Russia, particularly
 ak> western parts of Ukraine and Belorussia. A very big number of Red Army
 ak> soldiers got prisoned by the Pols and almost all them were exterminated
 ak> in Polish concentration camps. As for me I prefer to be killed in my
 ak> nape with a gun than to be tortured for many years in concentration
 ak> camp. So some people in Russia surely could have some reason to be
 ak> merciless to the Polish officers.

A Pole should do 3 things in his life.  If he can.

 RB>> Ask any Pole about Katyn.

 ak> Ask them about my story and their occupation of territories after the
 ak> Russian revolution.

"Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand
one another." ~Emma Goldman, a Lithuanian

Lithuanians blame all of their problems on Poles and Russians,
even though Poles and Russians only make up some six percent of
the total population.  But they never blame anything on Estonians
because Estonians are too stupid, so they just make fun of them.

I used to have a fairly large collection of ethnic jokes when
I was a kid.  But they got trashed when my grandmother found them.
Even though she never admitted tossing them into the trash bin,
I could tell she did it.

In Hell, the Devil shows his minions a pot full of Russians.
He says, "Don't worry about them, because if they escape from
the pot, they'll just buy some vodka and then jump back in the
pot."  When he pass a pot full of Jews, the Devil says, "Make
sure none of them gets out, because once one of them gets out,
he will help all the others to get out too."  Finally, the
Devil passes a pot full of Poles and says, "Don't worry about
them.  If one gets out, the others will drag him back in."

Now you know why she tossed my joke collection.

Here's one told by Neo -

The secret of bullets in the Matrix movie is solved.
It turns out that on each of those bullets is a tiny
caption: "Made in Poland."

--Lee

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