Soviet Union plays a part.
Latvian documentary causes controversy
10.04.08 03:51
Many historians acknowledge the sacrifices the Soviet Union made to defeat Nazi Germany in the Second World War. However, a film released in Latvia is suggesting that the Soviet Union helped Nazi Germany instigate the horrors of the holocaust. The move has been condemned by many as an attempt to rewrite history. ( RT )
http://news.trendaz.com/index.shtml?show=news&newsid=1172945&lang=EN
The Great Cover-Up
By Christopher Orlet
Published 4/10/2008 12:07:04 AM
Andrzej Wajda's new film Katyn opens with an archetypal image from World War II in Poland. Hundreds of Polish refugees are crossing a bridge over the River Vistula. Behind them can be heard the guns of the advancing German Wehrmacht. On the other side the Red Army approaches. The better off Poles decide to take their chances with the Nazis, while the Jews and the proletariat continue toward the advancing Red Army troops. The obvious significance of the scene is that the choice between totalitarian systems is no choice at all.
Dalton Trumbo may lay moldering in the grave, but he would no doubt be glad to hear that to date there is no English-language distributor for Wajda's film, and no plans for its U.S. release.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13032