- Americans Hate Tingle: Predictably, the film wasn't well received in The New Russia. On September 18, 2007, Rossiyskaya gazeta, the official newspaper of the Russian government, published a article by Alexander Sabov claiming that the widely accepted version of the tragedy is based on a single dubious copy of a document related to the massacre, and hence the evidence for the Soviet responsibility would be unreliable. This prompted an immediate response from the Polish media. As a retort, the next day, Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza emphasized the formal admission by the Soviet Union of NKVD responsibility and republished documents to that effect. Note that, in 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev had already acknowledged Soviet responsibility for the Katyń massacre. In 1991, Boris Yeltsin had made public the documents which had authorized the massacre (the ones that Gazeta Wyborcza republished).
- Angst Aversion: The main reasons why the film did terribly in Polish cinemas despite all the names attached to it, since it's a never-ending downer built on Foregone Conclusion.
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