Smolensk. April 10, 2010. This 154M crashed while trying to land... Unbelief, despair, pain... fewer people then expected that the tragic death of the full Polish delegation at the threshold of Siewierza Airport was only the beginning of the endless drama to this day. Drama of families of victims, but besides of the full national community, politically exploited by politicians – both sides of the dispute that is taking place in Poland like cancer. Why did you do this to Poland?!...
In the life of each of us there are events that are forever remembered. any besides leave a clear mark in public awareness. We remember not only what happened then, but besides what we did then. No uncertainty this kind of experience was a Smolensk disaster. any older Readers likewise remembered the attack on the WTC towers of 2001 or the "national retreats" which St. John Paul II gave us 20 years ago. After specified generational movements we had the chance to someway become better – as a community, a nation. What are we like?
It is 15 years since the dramatic events of Smolensk. In the catastrophe, 154M was killed by a full delegation going to Katyń to commemorate the victims of the murder, mainly on officers of the Polish Army, on government officials... The plane crew besides died... That's impossible... Did anyone survive...? How did this happen? Disaster or assassination...? Many questions and questions fell into empty space and remained unanswered... Tears squeezed into your eyes, something squeezed in your throat... There was only hope left... And prayer...
Poland seems to be uniting. However, she did so only for a moment. due to the fact that the planet of media and politics has chosen another option – “on short circuit”. And in this shortcoming, with time getting stronger, our country is kept to this day.
Could have been otherwise.
In April 2010, I think everyone knew it wasn't easy. The crash of a Polish, government plane with the president of the Republic of Poland on board, with a military crew, happened in the Russian Federation. What did we know? Working with the Putins? Almost impossible if it was an accident. Excluded in the event of an assassination. But no 1 expected that the Polish case would turn out as if they wanted to let the Russians play the case their own way. And that had very crucial consequences.
This is not the time and place for a detailed analysis of events after April 10, 2010. Suffice to mention the resignation from the originally adopted expression of explaining the causes of the disaster and the surrender of the investigation into the hands of General Anodina and Russian MAK. Symbolic for this terrible decision will stay the accusation of Polish pilots with a communicative about the deficiency of work of Russian controllers, who could be replaced by... chimps. It is adequate to callback the solemn tales of digging the place of tragedy “to the metre deep” and the expected cooperation “hand in hand” with Russian pathomorphologists. The consequence was shocking examples of deficiency of simple respect for bodies, confusion of remains, recognition errors. adequate to mention the footage of the wreckage of the aircraft by Russian workers... And so on, and so on...
The Polish State, in order to be considered serious, should stand together in 1 line, a wall. It should be monolith and have a strong policy to explain the causes of the disaster. However, we have received a submission to Moscow on the part of the decision-makers, relying on its "truth" and the right to a "Polish report", which received the rank of a tiny crucial annex to the Russian arrangements.
We had to have alternatives. The “Committee of Macerewicz” was created, whose experts were to aid establish the facts. It was hoped that possibly “something” was known by the Americans. Many journalists searched for the truth, studying thousands of pages of documents, cutting through method intricacies, gaining analysis of experts, specialists, household relations or seeking witnesses in Russia...
After the change of power, small has changed in the Smolensk issue. The work didn't move. possibly it was besides late for many things... I'm certain she didn't make it easy for Russia... They tried billing in the native yard. The head of Prime Minister Donald Tusk's law firm managed to be convicted of flight errors. Only after years, Tomasz Arabski obtained a cassation and acquittal... Reason? Invalid ruling...
Divide and rule
And so over the years – alternatively of unity – we have received divisions, increasingly strong and deeper, irrational; divisions whose meaningful image is “tricks” and verbal clashes taking place in front of a monument in Piłsudski's capital square... No respect for the tragically dead, no respect for those who want to remember... Without respect for those protesting for themselves, due to the fact that they reproach the purely human attitudes that are right for our civilization...
The regular fuel of politicians became common hostility and hatred sown in the hearts of Poles. This disgusting experimentation is ongoing. What right?
This gloomy image of Polish reality leads to a sad reflection on the quality of national policy and its methods. And possibly it would not be a subject worthy of raising in 15 years after Smolensk, had it not been for the fact that the events following the disaster effectively destroyed us as a Nation. More and more. And the end can't be seen...
The current squad is going to proceed to play “Smolensk note”. He tries to launch a search arrest against Russian physicians who desecrated the bodies of the dead. I'm glad something's going on. But we remember the "effectiveness" of investigations against airfield controllers – at a time erstwhile we were not yet a wary ally of Ukraine attacked by Moscow... Since we know that it didn't work then, it most likely won't work today. Or should we have tried? However, the question remains: what is the real intent of specified activity? Why now?
Perhaps another activities of the alleged bodnarists are a tool here. It is no secret that the ruling squad has taken a ‘hard’ charge for the accounts of the United Right rule. In this context, the initiative mentioned here can be taken somewhat differently. due to the fact that we have a fresh effort to hold Wenceslas B., the head of the Smolensk Subcommittee, liable for obstructing the investigation (destruction, failure or concealment of evidence). And let's mention that a bit earlier the investigators had made a "cook" at the home of another abroad expert “the Materewicz Commission” and his wife – a writer for years engaged in explaining Smolensk mysteries...
A punch for a punch... And the field of this political game has already become the full of Poland. due to the fact that it's not just Smolensk. It besides applies to the authority of those who scope for it, to those who hold it, and to those who forget it. And so continues the devastating social ties of the Polish-Polish war, in the name of a well-known rule divide et impera. What about Smolensk? The question remains: who about him – but really, out of respect for the dead, their families, to the truth, out of respect for Poland and us as a Nation – remembers? Targing behind the fender continues. And the real enemy? It's almost at the gates.
Marcin Austyn
