On April 10, 15 years have passed since the Smolensk disaster. At 8:00 p.m. message from president Andrzej Duda. Jarosław Kaczyński spoke at 21.
– It's a sad day due to the fact that it's been 15 years. 15 years since the day the crowd was here. erstwhile Poland, shocked, found out and could be said, reacted as needed – with unity, with pain of sadness, but with unity, I will repeat it again, on what happened – said the president of the Law and Justice Office in a speech in Krakowskie Przedmieście.
In his opinion, the disaster was described “in an highly lying way”.
– Today, all reasonable man who is not a liar is not a hypocrite to admit that in 2010 there was a "attack" – he added.
– To what was then described in an highly false way, to what was indeed an assassination, an assassination of 96 men and women, to the president and his wife..., to people who simply wanted to do what they should have done at this point: pay homage to the victims of the Katyn crime.
– We frequently forget this, that it must have been over 40 years, so that everyone, the successors of the guilty, but besides the West, officially recognized that it was (the Katyn–ed crime) a Russian crime. In the U.S. Parliament there was a committee that besides came to specified conclusions, but her work did not become the authoritative position of the United States. It took 40 years to wait, said Kaczyński.
– We gotta ask ourselves how long we will gotta wait for this apparent to be said loudly by the Polish authorities, by the authorities of another countries. So that the apparent facts are accepted. It's a tough road, but we gotta go. It is our duty, in connection with what is happening in our country, to stay a sovereign state and to stay a nation, to be safe in our country, so that we can argue the probable, unfortunately, aggression. We gotta remember that it all connects – he noted.
