With Blood On His Hands, Commissar Y. Raichman Ponders The Forest Of The Dead At Katyn,1943 Poem by Leo Yankevich

With Blood On His Hands, Commissar Y. Raichman Ponders The Forest Of The Dead At Katyn,1943

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A Nazi lie and Hitler’s plot? —
The forest sighs but gives no answers.
Twelve thousand Polish officers rot,
grandsons of Sobieski’s lancers,
reactionary anti-Semites,
too dead to reach for thoughts or guns,
or, in the fragrant dark of spring nights,
to father patriotic sons.

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