Katyn: an overlooked but essential World War II movie
Last weekend my wife and I watched Katyn, by the great Polish filmmaker Andrezj Wajda. It is about the 1940 massacre of about 20,000 Polish officers and intellectuals by the Soviets, and also about how the subsequent Communist cover-up corrupted postwar Polish society. It isn’t Saving Private Ryan, but this should be on anyone’s list ...
Last weekend my wife and I watched Katyn, by the great Polish filmmaker Andrezj Wajda. It is about the 1940 massacre of about 20,000 Polish officers and intellectuals by the Soviets, and also about how the subsequent Communist cover-up corrupted postwar Polish society. It isn’t Saving Private Ryan, but this should be on anyone’s list of must-see World War II movies.
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Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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