- It is 15 years since the plane crash Tu-154 in Smolensk. 96 people died: 88 passengers and 8 crew members
- On board the plane was then president of Poland Lech Kaczyński. Jarosław mentions in an interview with the “Super Express” that his brother sought to make a “state that would not be strong against the weak but weak against the strong”
- He adds that the failure of loved ones was very painful, but then many of his friends and coworkers were besides killed.
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Jarosław Kaczyński remembers his late brother Lech on the 15th anniversary of the Smolensk disaster in “Super Express”. He describes him as a good, honest and helpful man. "He did many crucial things and did them with a certain plan, but this plan was interrupted in my deepest conviction by an assassination organised by those in whom he reconciled the plan," he states.
The president of PiS besides summarizes his career. He describes that “he wanted Poland not to be post-communist, but incomparably fair and strong”. Jarosław Kaczyński estimates that his brother as president sought to make a "state that would not be strong against the weak but weak against the strong." “ He was impressed by the election campaign, during which he faced this very severe poorness in many smaller cities, as he himself said with the odor of poverty,” he added.
Jarosław Kaczyński about his brother's death in the Smolensk disaster. It speaks of a “fight”
He besides uses strong words concerning the death of Lech Kaczyński. "He fought to guarantee that Poland was not threatened by either Russian imperialism or by the German imperialism he well perceived. He must have utilized different rhetoric and ways to fight. In my top belief, this fight, especially in the East, cost him his life," he says.
Jarosław Kaczyński says in an interview with the “Super Express” that the failure of his brother and sister-in-law Maria Kaczyńska was the hardest for him, but then many of his friends, his associates, whom he valued, were killed. Grażyna Gesicka, who was the Minister of Regional improvement from 2005 to 2007, and later in 2010, president of the PiS Parliamentary Club, Vice-President of PiS Aleksandra Natalli-Świat and Deputy Marshal of the Krzysztof Putra Sejm, is listed here. He besides mentions Przemysław Gosiewski, who in the government of Jarosław Kaczyński served as vice president of the Council of Ministers, and calls him “a man of incredible energy” able to talk to everyone inside and outside the party.
Smolensk disaster. explanation of the assassination
The disaster occurred on Saturday 10 April 2010 at 8.41 p.m. 96 people died: 88 passengers and 8 crew members. The assassination mentioned by Jarosław Kaczyński is simply a explanation repeated not only by him, but besides by Antoni Macierewicz, who was the chair of the parliamentary squad for explaining the causes of the Tu-154 plane government crash in Smolensk.
He suggested that the disaster could have been, among others, a political assassination, Donald Tusk's game with Vladimir Putin or the consequence of an explosion. In 2024 the Ministry of National Defence presented a study by the team, which assessed the functioning of the subcommittee of Smolensk Antoni Macierewicz. Economics, purpose, legality and reliability were investigated. All these aspects have been assessed negatively.
