Kaczyński returns to Smolensk. He accuses Russia and hits Tusk

Zdjęcie: Kaczyński wraca do Smoleńska. Oskarża Rosję i uderza w Tuska

Jarosław Kaczyński, during the Warsaw Smolensk monthly magazine, again made the heaviest accusations against Russia and attacked Donald Tusk hard. The Smolensk dispute is not just a substance of memory to the right. It is simply a question of the seriousness of the state, its continuity and the ability to analyse the fact where the Polish state is concerned.

Monthly at Piłsudski Square

On Monday, August 10, 2026, the politicians of Law and Justice with Jarosław Kaczyński placed their wreaths in front of the statues of president Lech Kaczyński and Victims of the 2010 Smolenska Tragedy in Piłsudski Square in Warsaw. RMF24 reportsthat the message of the president of the Law and Justice organization was accompanied by interference from the manifesting organization and that the police, including the officers of the anti-conflict team, were in order.

Kaczyński spoke straight about the political stake. According to RMF24's report, he estimated that a extremist deficiency of support for Donald Tusk and his government was announcing a change of power. He besides announced the establishment of institutions after this change, which are to safe Polish regulation of law and democracy and to prevent the actions he defined as occupying tv or prosecutors. It's a hard language, but it's inscribed in a real state conflict that lasts after 2023.

The most severe allegation against Russia

Smolensk alone was the strongest part of the speech. Kaczyński said that in Smolensk there was a crime committed by Russian authorities, which could be helped by Polish colleagues. He added that he considered specified a script very likely. There must be precision: this is the position of the leader of the Law and Justice, not the final decision of the court.

However, this precision does not weaken the essential matter. Russia has been pursuing for years a policy of force, lies and imperial contempt for the countries of our region. The Polish state is obliged to analyse all thread of disaster, safe papers and request the truth, alternatively of closing the substance with a political description of an uncomfortable topic. For a nation that knows Katyn, Russian mating is not an abstraction from a textbook.

Tusk as a symbol of political responsibility

Kaczyński's attack on Tusk was not accidental. For a large part of Smolensk's right hand has become a symbol of how the state should not behave after the tragedy of its own elite: without excessive trust in Moscow, without abdicating with subjectivity, without allowing a abroad state to dictate the rhythm of explaining the death of the Polish President.

In this sense, the current dispute the condition of Donald Tusk's office has besides a dimension of state memory. This isn't about a inexpensive ritual organization war. The question is whether, after any change of power, institutions can be dismantled, they can be reversed, and they are considered uncomfortable for the rulers to vanish from sight. Polish sovereignty requires continuity, besides erstwhile it concerns the most painful cards of fresh history.

Memory of 96 Victims

Smolensk disaster remains a wound in Polish memory. IPN looks like, that 96 people from the Polish delegation flying for the 70th anniversary of the Katyn Crime, including president Lech Kaczyński with his wife Maria, last president of Poland in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski and representatives of the highest institutions of the state, died at Smolensk on 10 April 2010.

Therefore, Smolensk months are not just a organization ceremony. You can argue about words, hypotheses and the work of politicians. However, 1 must not accept that the memory of the death of the president of the Republic and so many people serving the State is to be ridiculed or pushed out of public life. A country that does not defend its own memory loses its spine.

A dispute that will return at the urns

Kaczyński announced that the celebrations would proceed and talk about the day of victory, in which the guilty will be punished. Those are harsh words. They require evidence and political responsibility, due to the fact that accusations of complicity in crime are among the hardest in public life.

But there's another side. The Polish right cannot give Smolensk indifference, ridicule or authoritative amnesia. The fact about this tragedy, the memory of the victims and the settlement of the mistakes of the state are matters that concern the safety of all Pole. If you neglect at the death of your own president, the citizen has the right to ask where else he will fail.

That's the real stakes of this dispute. Not an emotion for the emotion itself, but a question about the state: whether Poland should be a community of memory and responsibility, or just an administration managed from crisis to crisis.

Source: RMF24/PAP, IPN.

Source: RMF24