Katyń is where the Soviets murdered between 15,000 and 25,000 Polish soldiers and other citizens during the second world war. Andrzej Wajda has made a film called “Katyń,” to which hordes of schoolchildren are trooping off to every day. Here’s Tomasz Sakiewicz of Gazeta Polska on the subject: “The elites of the Second Republic [inter-war Poland, a dictatorship for much of the period] had to be murdered in order to raise up new elites, insensitive to the Soviet lifestyle.”

Sakiewicz is far from alone in thinking that if an inferior class of people had been killed communism might not have gained a hold in post war Poland.