Russia is in denial as it rewrites Katyn history

Imagine Nazi rule in Germany surviving for decades, with Hitler undefeated in war, but succeeded on his death in the early 1950s by a series of lacklustre party hacks who more or less disowned his ‘excesses'. Imagine then a ‘reform Nazi' (call him Michael Gorbach) coming to power in the l980s, dismantling the National Socialist system, only to fall from power as the Third Reich collapsed in political and economic chaos. Imagine a shrunken ‘German Federation' suffering ten years of upheaval, before an SS officer (call him Voldemar Puschnik) comes to power, first as prime minister and then as president. Under eight years of rule by Herr Puschnik, Germany regains economic stability, largely thanks to a sky-high coal price.