Andrzej Duda about the Smolensk disaster. “Russian land again absorbed Polish blood”

– My fellow Americans, ladies and gentlemen. It's been 15 years. I can inactive see that Warsaw and the coffins of the presidential couple and my dead friends standing in the palace. They created a mourning avenue, which followed the endless march, paying tribute to Poles – president Andrzej Duda started his message.

– Lech Kaczyński's office was empty. At the door of the offices of those who left, the candles burned. The Presidential Palace, usually vibrant, resounding with conversations and meetings, abruptly froze. It was filled with silence and despair," he added.

15th anniversary of the Smolensk disaster. Message of president Andrzej Duda

The head of our state besides said that he inactive "has a large hall in Moscow and its dark rooms where the bodies of the victims of the Smolensk tragedy were located."

– Ladies and gentlemen, Smolensk disaster is inactive a great, unrepentant wound in the hearts of families, relatives and friends of the dead. The full of Poland suffered a immense loss, all of us Poles. The outstanding statesman Lech Kaczyński, his wife Maria Kaczyńska and the president of Poland in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski died," said the Polish leader.

President Andrzej Duda besides mentioned another victims TU-154M disasters: politicians, generals, priests, and yet families of Katyn victims and aircraft personnel.

– Russian land again absorbed Polish blood He stressed.

The president pointed out that the death of the victims of the Smolensk tragedy is all the more crucial due to the fact that they died on their way to the celebration of the Katyn crime – committed by communists on Polish officers and intelligence during planet War II.

Andrzej Duda: The lie was to triumph forever

– president Lech Kaczyński, for whom an crucial part of the public mission was to reconstruct the fact about our history, gave his life in order to pay tribute to those whose Soviets and communists tried to erase from national memory. He went where in the intention of enemies and traitors of Poland the lie would forever triumph over the truth – continued head of state.

Andrzej Duda pointed out that in a speech prepared for the Katyn celebrations, which Lech Kaczyński had not already delivered, he wrote: In the way to reconciliation 1 needs partnership, dialog equal to equal, not imperial longing. The Katyn crime will always remind of the threat of enslavement and demolition of people and nations, the power of lies.

– He was the president of the future, based on fact and concern for the destiny of subsequent generations of Poles, a visionary who could admit geopolitical challenges and threats – he said.

Andrzej Duda also recalled the 2008 words of president Lech Kaczyński from TbilisiWhen he warned the planet about the rebirth of Russian imperialism.

– Unfortunately, the dangers he warned about were ignored by many politicians in Poland and those who ruled in western Europe. The naive reset policy with Russia dominated. present everyone knows Lech Kaczyński was right said our leader.

President in Message: Trying to destruct unity will cover the veil of shame

The president besides stated that there is no uncertainty that in these turbulent times it is essential to realise the imagination of strong Poland. – The next leaders chosen by us must unite around the priorities of the Polish state's reason, which president Lech Kaczyński left us in his political will - He said.

At the same time, he recalled that the Smolensk disaster could overcome our differences.

– In the chronicles of that time there will be a memory of the awakening of the tremendous force of solidarity, but unfortunately besides of those who tried to break it. However, I believe that attempts to destruct that unity by the alleged contempt manufacture will yet cover the veil of shame – he noted.

– present we know that the legacy of those who died in Smolensk has not been erased. The memory of Poles, strong, worthy and faithful proved more powerful than any effort to fight her president Duda stressed.

He pointed out that our responsibility, as witnesses of those days, was to defender this memory and to pass it on to the descendants and thanked all those who have preserved the memory of the disaster for the last 15 years.

– respect for her victims is and remains The measurement of respect for Poland and ourselves, so it is impossible to accept that to this day the Warsaw authorities have failed to give 1 of the streets in the city the name of president Lech Kaczyński – president of Poland and president of the capital – he said.

In his message, the President, quoting the words of Pope John Paul II, besides stated that "the fact of Katyn cannot be erased from the memory of Europe."

– The disaster (...) received Poland's 96 prominent compatriots, yet from this large failure a community was born. In those memorable days, many people decided to engage in public affairs. The bottom-up social initiatives and levels of cooperation for the common good were created, he said.

He stressed that "such Poland – ambitious, assured place in Europe and in the world, conscious of its history, strong solidarity of citizens and building the power of its army, is the best consequence to contemporary threats and reborn Russian imperialism".

– Only in this way will we fulfill the will of the murdered in Katyn and the will of those who died on 10 April in Smolensk. Hi their memory – he finished.

15th anniversary of the Smolensk disaster. Celebrations nationwide

Tupolev Tu-154M presidential disaster occurred 10 April 2010 close Smolensk Airport. Then all died 96 peoplewhich were on board the machine, including President Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria Kaczyńska. The Polish delegation headed for celebrations related to the 70th anniversary of the Katyn crime.

On Thursday, events were held throughout the country to commemorate the victims of the disaster, attended by representatives of the authorities and families of the deceased.

After 8 o'clock, the victims were praised, among others, at the Military Cemetery in Powązki, where members of the government, representatives of the Sejm and the legislature and president of the capital Rafał Trzaskowski and in Krakowskie Przedmieście, where a group of Law and Justice politicians gathered.

Polish president Andrzej Duda went to Krakow in turnto attend the Holy Mass celebrated by Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski and to lay a wreath on the grave of Lech and Maria Kaczyński on Wawel.