Polish President, Lech Kaczynski and several others, killed in plane crash

[europeandude]

Sad day for us, Poles
Not only president and his wife died, but ALL the leaders of main polish civil and military central administration agencies, and MANY MANY other VIP's who are essential for Polish government are dead
The Katyn massacre has been forgotten for many years, and all those ppl who died today worked hard to make this Polish tragedy visible for other countries... Its all gone now...

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[798686]

how convenient for czar putin

He's been put in charge of the crash investigation. :redface:
In fairness though, there don't seem to be any suspicious circumstances. Pilot was warned to land elsewhere as it was foggy, but decided to try anyway.

Sad day for us, Poles
Not only president and his wife died, but ALL the leaders of main polish civil and military central administration agencies, and MANY MANY other VIP's who are essential for Polish government are dead
The Katyn massacre has been forgotten for many years, and all those ppl who died today worked hard to make this Polish tragedy visible for other countries... Its all gone now...
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It's very sad dude. Maybe the accident will actually raise awareness and attention to the Katyn massacre, that it might not otherwise have received?

 

[europeandude]

Polish media are very careful and cut off all the speculations about the cause of this crush that appear in some interviews... everytime when Polish-Russian former conflicts are mentioned reporters turn this topic to other sides...

It is also very important, that in this accident has died two of three future candidates for presidency- Lech Kaczynski ('right') - he wanted to be reelected, and Jerzy Szmajdzinski - the 'left' candidate. The only living candidate by now is Bronislaw Komorowski (centre), who is now, according to the constitution- the leader of the country (as the speaker of parliament)...

I'm curious if any other candidates appear, and how would the election campaign look then...

 

[Jason]

This is very sad, and is going to cause real issues for Poland with so many leading figures dying at once.

The conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day on this one. When is the first book coming out?

 

[europeandude]

the truth is, that there were in the history 'incidents', when some foreign officials went to Russia, or Soviet Union, and never came back, or came back in coffins. And all bad things that has happened to Poland since first, second and third partition of Poland in XVIII/XIX, 123 years of bondage, another occupation during II WW, and afterwards - 55 years of Soviet Union having actualy fatal influence on Polish economy and freedom... Latest years of fight for the historical truth, efforts made to make things clear and not falsed. Those people who died fought with Soviet Union for Polish democracy 20 years ago!
For Poles it is really very hard NOT to suspect any conspiracy

 

[Krusader]

Very Terrible news

 

[Hotrocker]

They have already started circulating.....revolting and so not funny

I speak for myself only, but after all of the Polack jokes I've been the butt of, I realize they're just words and it shows just how ignorant the people who spew them are.

 

[B_curiousme01]

Major tragedy. It's difficult for me to understand why so many VIPs were all traveling on the same flight. I worry for the Polish people. They have suffered much and now, once again, are vunerable to bad things happening quickly.