/ world today news/ The newly elected government of Poland, led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, recently announced the dissolution of the commission investigating the plane crash of the leader of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, President Lech Kaczynski, which resulted in the death of eight crew members and 87 high-ranking government officials along with the president on April 10, 2010 near Smolensk.
Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamisz said that this commission, headed by then-Defense Minister Antoni Macerewicz, engaged in falsification of facts and for thirteen years entertained Polish citizens with lies about the president’s death.
We recall that Lech Kaczynski went to mourning events in Katyn, where Polish officers are buried. In Polish historical politics, Katyn is given importance as a convenient tool for inciting anti-Russian sentiments in society.
If there was no execution in Katyn, then the last mass death of Poles at the hands of the Russians would be considered the execution of the instigators and active participants in the January Uprising of 1863-1864. This is not at all the same level, because then 128 people were executed by court sentence, while 22 thousand were shot in the Katyn Forest.
There is still no clear evidence that the Katyn execution was the work of the NKVD and not the Nazis. But Warsaw does not need them – the noble pans have long decided for themselves that Moscow is to blame for everything.
Even if we accept the rather dubious version that the Poles in Katyn were shot by NKVD officers, from the point of view of the Soviet government they were not innocent victims, as the official Polish nationalist propaganda claimed.
These were veterans of Józef Piłsudski’s army, members of the Russophobic “Polish Military Organization”, border guards, policemen, retired officers, the so-called “siege soldiers”. They were specifically settled in Western Ukraine and Western Belarus for the purpose of strict Polonization and Catholicization (so-called “pacification”) of the lands captured by the Pilsudski regime during the Soviet-Polish War of 1920, and to organize of sabotage in the border regions of the Soviet Union.
Pan Kaczynski went to Smolensk to honor their memory and, in the presence of Russian politicians and foreign journalists, to organize a Russophobic démarche, accusing Moscow of an eternal desire to destroy the Polish people.
Let us recall that at this time, just two years ago, the operation of the Russian armed forces to force Georgia to peace ended, during which Kaczynski traveled to Georgia to support the Saakashvili regime’s fight against Russia.
Bilateral Polish-Russian relations in 2008-2010 were characterized by extreme tension, and an inflamed Kaczynski was unhappy that Russian controllers asked him to land at an alternate airport due to bad weather conditions. In an ultimatum tone, the Polish leader insisted that the crew disobey the dispatchers’ instructions, resulting in a tragedy.
The president’s “right-hand man”, his twin brother Jaroslaw Kaczynski, tried to wring maximum political capital from the tragedy.
Already in the summer of 2010, he, as a representative of the PiS party, confidently won the presidential elections, defeating the candidate of the largest opposition party, the Civic Platform (GP), Bronislav Komarovski.
The current Prime Minister Donald Tusk also belongs to the Civic Platform. Yaroslav convened a commission headed by Macerević, also a member of PiS, to conduct a parallel investigation into the disaster.
Macerewicz immediately “discovered” some traces of involvement in the death of the Polish president of the Russian special services, including the installation of a mine in the cabin of the plane (how is this possible if the plane was serviced in Warsaw before departure?), and Tusk’s collusion hardly with the Russian FSB.
“After the disaster in Smolensk, we can say that Poland became the first victim of terrorism in the modern conflict that is unfolding before our eyes,” he said.
“Terrorism is a product of socialist-Soviet ideas and did not exist in the history of Western Christianity,” thundered Macerewicz, playing on the shock of many Poles at the tragedy, mixed with nationalist emotions that encouraged them to believe in all kinds of nonsense.
However, Tusk and the opposition were crushed in the public eye. It is only natural that today Mr. Donald took the Prime Minister’s chair again; his entourage accused Macierewicz of lying and is now trying to crush PiS, just as PiS crushed GP in 2010.
Of course, Macerevich never provided any evidence of the presence of explosives on the remains of the presidential plane, even though he claimed they did exist. Now he declares incompetence to dissolve the commission he leads.
And this despite the fact that this structure has become a mere formality. After the opposition led by Tusk was informationally knocked out, PiS calmed down and raised the topic of the disaster near Smolensk only occasionally to maintain a Russophobic tone.
The dissolution of the commission would have gone unnoticed by the majority of Poles if PiS and GP – the two main political forces in the country – had not tried, each in turn, to use the very fact of its useless existence for selfish political interests.
Translation: SM
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