Never less the Katyn Massacre has been a thorn in the side of British and American diplomatic relations with Poland since, with the fall of the Communist state a possible time bomb, waiting to explode

The 'failure' of the British and American Government to re-visit the Katyn revelations since the end of the Second World War and their lack of deference to the idea that they were wrong, has left the Polish people with little or nothing to trust their future to the West.

A lack of will to be drawn into legal discussions and there implications as regard the loss of assets by the Polish people, when  Poland was left to the mercy of the Stalinist regime are seen as representative of the larger failure of the British and American Governments to save Poland from Soviet domination after the war.

The 'sacrifice' that Poland and its people have not been forgotten.  The long years of tyranny they suffered for peace and harmony in the rest of Europe and the west, have not gone unnoticed by historians.

The admission of guilt for the Ketyn Massacre by the Russian Government in 1990 has not assuaged some of those that lived through the Second World War and beyond...............they like others are still waiting,

and the plea "lest we forget" hollow

Taken from documents in the PRO,  FO 371/86679, FO 371/188794 and HS 4/137articles in the FCO Katyn but mainly local knowledge by the Polish community in Staffordshire.