Místo paměti Katyň: Od masové vraždy přes pokus o smíření k nové konfrontaci
Katyn Memorial Site: From Mass Murder through an Attempt at Reconciliation to a New Confrontation

Summary/Abstract: Amidst the increasing tension between Russia and Poland over the last decade, the Russian Katyn memorial site has become a typical example of the confronting development of historical memory. In order to suppress the dominance of Polish suffering in Katyn, where Stalin’s Soviet Union murdered thousands of Polish soldiers and officers in 1940, Putin’s Russia began to commemorate the 8 000 victims of Stalinism from the Smolensk area and also quite uncritically emphasise the “historical guilt” of the Poles against the Russians as well as the advantages of the Soviet influence in post-war Poland.

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