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Notes
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English translation of the title: Lord, have mercy on soldiers
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English translation of first line: Whatever History writes about them,
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The poet writes of her father's death, as one of the ca. 22,000 Polish officers massacred at Katyń Forest in Russia in 1940 by the NKVD, on Stalin's orders. She offers a prayer that her father and the man who murdered him be reconciled in heaven.
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Author's note: November 1965
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Katyn,
cRussia,ccFormer Soviet Union,cEastern Europe, Europe,
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