POLAND'S PRESIDENT AND 132 OTHERS DIE IN PLANE CRASH ON WAY TO COMMEMORATE THE KATYN MASSACRE
BBC:Polish leader dies in plane crashPolish President Lech Kaczynski and scores of others have been killed in a plane crash in Russia.
Polish and Russian officials said no-one had survived after the plane apparently hit trees as it approached Smolensk's airport in thick fog.
Poland's army chief, central bank governor, MPs and leading historians were among more than 80 passengers.
They were flying in from Warsaw to mark 70 years since the Katyn massacre of thousands of Poles by Soviet forces.
The BBC's Adam Easton, in Warsaw, says the crash is a catastrophe for the Polish people.
He says Prime Minister Donald Tusk was reportedly in tears when he was told.
Mr Tusk, who runs the day-to-day business of government, has called an emergency meeting of ministers.
Pilot error?
The Russian emergencies ministry told Itar-Tass news agency the plane crashed at 1056 Moscow time (0656 GMT).
PICTURES AND VIDEO OF THE CRASH SITE. HERE.
SAD. HORRIBLE. RIP.
Putin Marks Soviet Massacre of Polish Officers MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin on Wednesday became the first Russian or Soviet leader to join Polish officials in commemorating the anniversary of the murder of thousands of Polish officers by the Soviet Union at the beginning of World War II.
Mr. Putin cast the executions as one tragedy out of many wrought by what he called the Soviet Union’s “totalitarian regime.”
“We bow our heads to those who bravely met death here,” Mr. Putin said at a site in the Katyn forest close to the Russian city of Smolensk, where 70 years ago members of the Soviet secret police executed more than 20,000 Polish officers captured after the Soviet Army invaded in 1939.
“In this ground lay Soviet citizens, burnt in the fire of the Stalinist repression of the 1930s; Polish officers, shot on secret orders; soldiers of the Red Army, executed by the Nazis.”
THE MASSACRE WAS NOT ATYPICAL; IT WAS AN S.O.P. - FOR AND STALIN AND THE USSR.
GENOCIDE AND DISINFORMATION ARE THE PILLARS OF TYRANNY.
KACZYNSKI WAS A GREAT CONSERVATIVE LEADER OF THE NEW POLAND:
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (Polish pronunciation: [ˈlɛx alɛˈksandɛr kaˈtʂɨɲskʲi] ( listen); 18 June 1949 – 10 April 2010) was the President of the Republic of Poland from 2005 to 2010, a politician of the party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice, PiS). Kaczyński served as Mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 22 December 2005, the day before his presidential inauguration. He was the identical twin brother of the former Prime Minister of Poland and current Chairman of the Law and Justice party, Jarosław Kaczyński.
... In the 1970s Lech Kaczyński was an activist in the pro-democratic anti-Communist movement in Poland, Workers' Defence Committee, as well as the Independent Trade Union movement. In August, 1980, he became an adviser to the Inter-Enterprise Strike Committee in the Gdańsk Shipyard and the Solidarity movement. During the martial law introduced by the communists in December, 1981, he was interned as an anti-socialist element. After his release from internment, he returned to trade union activities, becoming a member of the underground Solidarity.When Solidarity was legalized again in the late 1980s, Lech Kaczyński was an active adviser of Lech Wałęsa and his Komitet Obywatelski Solidarność in 1988. From February to April, 1989, he participated in Polish Round Table talks.
... In 2001 he founded the conservative political party Law and Justice (PiS) party with his brother Jarosław. Lech Kaczyński was the president of the party between 2001 and 2003. His brother Jaroslaw is its current chairman.
... During his inauguration he stated several goals he would pursue during his presidency. Among those concerning internal affairs were: increasing social solidarity in Poland, bringing justice to those who were responsible or affected by communist crimes in the People's Republic of Poland, fighting corruption, providing security in economy, and safety for development of family. Kaczyński also stated that he would seek to abolish differences between regions. In his speech he also put emphasis on combining modernisation with tradition and remembering the teachings of Pope John Paul II.On December 21, 2008, Lech Kaczyński became the first Polish head of state to visit a Polish synagogue for a religious service. His attendance coincided with the first night of Hanukkah.[11]
RIP.
A SAD DAY FOR POLAND.
EXIT QUESTION:
- HMMM... IT'S CERTAINLY NOT OUTSIDE THE CHARACTER, ABILITY OR HISTORY OF THE KGB:
- AND IT COMES A WEEK AFTER OBAMA APPEASES PUTIN WITH AN ARMS TREATY - AND DAYS AFTER PUTIN'S ALLIES SEIZE (RE-TAKE) KYRGYZSTAN.
I THINK IT LOOKS VERY MUCH LIKE PUTIN IS EXPANDING RUSSIA'S GLOBAL POWER WITH NO FEAR OF OBAMA.
IT LOOKS LIKE OBAMA IS PUTIN'S BITCH.
AHMADINEJAD AND MAHMOUD ABBAS MUST BE GETTING JEALOUS.
7 comments:
Hi.
Strange when i read it this morning on the BBC the same tought came to me "So quickly after katyn ,this might be no accident"
I did remember this in Putin's statement that made me wonder:"Putin said the massacre in Katyn may have been an act of revenge by soviet dictator Joseph Stalin for the deaths of 32,000 Red army soldiers seized by Poland during the 1920 war with Soviet Russia.
"To my great shame I did not known that Stalin commanded a military operation in the Soviet-Polish war in 1920 ...Then, as is widely known, the Red Army was defeated. Lots of Red Army soldiers were captured. According to recent data 32,000 died from starvation and disease in Polish captivity," Putin told journalists at a press conference after talks with his polish counterpart Donald Tusk."
a bit strange for a forgiving message don't you think so?
Will.
How much damage has this done to the Polish government. First reports sound grim -- so many high-level people on that one plane.
Btw, for what it's work NIN claims the FBI said the Qatar diplomat arrested on United flight 663 was not merely smoking but trying to ignite something. Their info is a couple days old however.
I have been looking all over for a quote from yesterday in which the dead PM claimed that the treaty just signed 'represented a victory for Russia and a surrender by the USA' ..I heard this mentioned on cable news but now I cannot find it
I've been speculating something like that too...
Epa -- found this at the New York Times
“This treaty is a diplomatic and military victory for Moscow,” he said in an interview, “and I am not happy that this American defeat is being showcased in Prague.” -- former Czech defense minister Lubos Dobrovsky
the article here:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/world/europe/09prexy.html?hp
Is that the quote you're thinking about?
That quote sounds right on to me.
polish blood is not cheap
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