Daily Journal:

Firstly, despite the fact that well-known documents appeared on the Rosarkhiv website, the very fact of their appearance on the Rosarkhiv website has a certain significance. The fact is that a large number of people in our country are still convinced that it was the Germans who killed. And these documents, in fact, are made public as if on behalf of a state institution, a ministry. Now it will be difficult to call them falsified. Thus, this is another drop, an important drop in the balance in favor of establishing in the public consciousness the truth about what happened seventy years ago. Because this publication was carried out officially on behalf of the state, it was not done by some scientists who can be accused of falsification. Let them now accuse state archives of falsification.

Secondly, of course, these documents do not provide new information about Katyn, new important details, which are still not all known. As I understand it, the only possibility and hope of obtaining this information is those classified 116 volumes of the criminal case on Katyn, which was conducted by the Main Military Prosecutor's Office from 1990 to 2004. Declassification of this case is the necessary next step, and only after that we will understand whether there are any other special documents or not. Maybe this secrecy is a fiction, a theater. But there may also be a lot of important details - for example, about concealing the truth about Katyn, if they interrogated various former NKVD figures. Perhaps there are some important details unknown to us about the detention of these people in camps, the formation of some kind of execution lists, and so on. We don't know what's there. If anywhere there is certainly classified material related to Katyn, it is in this case 159.