Poland's Kaczynski Expounds On Soviet War Crimes.

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At a ceremony at Westerplatte on the Baltic coast, where the Germans fired the first shots against Poland on Sept. 1, 1939,President Lech Kaczynski compared the Soviet Union's murder of 20,000 Polish officers in the forest at Katyn and elsewhere to the Nazi genocide against the Jews.

"What's the comparison between the Holocaust and Katyn? There's one thing linking those crimes, though their scale was different. Jews perished because they were Jews. Polish officers perished because they were Polish officers," he said.

"It's not Poland that has to learn the lesson of humility. We have no reason for that. Others have -- those who caused this war," Kaczynski told war veterans and government officials.