Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and...
the Nazis, had been responsible for the massacre.Long a source of friction in modern Russian-Polish ties, Putin and Tusk recently took part in memorial services to commemorate the dead, in a sign that Poland and Russia are trying to put the Katyn massacre behind them.
In another indication of changing attitudes in Russia to the killings, Russian state television recently aired a Polish film about the massacre.
"We recently held together memorial ceremonies in Katyn and grieved together for the victims of the totalitarian era. Lech Kaczynski personally flew to Russia to pay tribute to the memory of the Polish officers who perished there - as a president, but also as a citizen of his country," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday in an address to the Polish people, for whom Katyn is once again synonymous with death and destruction.
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