I don't like to compose besides much due to the fact that I don't think I have that much wisdom to say. However, sometimes something will irritate me so much that I give an outlet to emotions by writing. This has happened today, and the occasion is the fifteenth anniversary of the Smolensk disaster, and I rather consciously usage the word disaster alternatively than the assassination.
I can't look at the net or watch any news show on tv so I don't run into annoying arguments, vandalism, and the remainder of the thoughtless surrounding of this anniversary. Yes, this disaster was a national tragedy. People considered to be social elites died. However, I dare say that this has not affected the level of functioning of the state. How it sucked then, it is today. I repeat, the death of all those who died in the Smolensk disaster was a tragedy, but mostly in the individual dimension of the victims of their families, friends and acquaintances.
After 15 years, we can see that the Smolensk disaster has caused disastrous effects in another dimension. This dimension covers the full of public life in Poland. peculiarly negative effects can be seen in the level of political culture and political thought. And specified a low political culture in Poland, fell into an even greater regression, as the Smolensk disaster became a cynically utilized political weapon, deepening various divisions in society. If 1 can talk about the manifestations of the breakdown of the national community, then the divisions created against the background of the Smolensk catastrophe are also proof.
Various tragic events in the last fewer decades, which should naturally unite Poles and strengthen the national community, have unfortunately had a superficial and short-lived impact. Even the experience of the tragic flood of the 1990s, which seemed to have exceptionally cemented the communities affected by this element, as well as millions of Poles sending selfless aid, in many cases ended up resenting who got what and why others, not me. Another example of specified a superficial and short-lived situation in which disputes were silent and it seemed that Poles were a national community was the death of Pope John Paul II. In the event of the Smolensk disaster, there was not even this. At once, accusations began, the shift of work and, on this basis, the creation of politics primarily in a pardonless fight against opponents.
The division into the perpetrators of disasters and victims – victims not in the sense of the people who died in the disaster – as the most crucial issue of political life had a very bad influence on political thought all the time, due to the fact that it falsifies what was and is fundamental in Poland's situation. This is best seen in relation to Russia. These relationships are 1 of specified fundamental problems and this is absolutely obvious. Meanwhile, the Smolensk disaster has become a reason for a completely irresponsible relation with Russia for interior political battles. On the another hand, erstwhile the Russians became aware of this, they began to usage these interior fights in Poland for their purposes, which further increased the confusion of the main parties. As a result, the Smoleńska disaster has devastated political life in Poland and has besides led to further demolition of relations with Russia, which must be clearly emphasized that it is not in Poland's interest. The fact that, for the purposes of interior political struggles, a hard relation with the power, which inactive remains Russia, is simply a measurement of the collapse of political thought in Poland.
Fifteen years have passed since the catastrophe at Smolensk, and no conclusions have been drawn against those liable for it. I do not know in what dimension it is essential to draw conclusions towards those liable for the feeling of Poles and to drive us into the abyss of speech, innuendo and playing on the lowest instincts. Unfortunately, there are not adequate forces in Poland to give the political consequences of the Smolensk disaster the right proportions and clear them of everything that harms Polish national interest. Unfortunately, it seems that it will proceed to arouse negative social emotions, utilized by various political lunatics and cynical bastards.
Andrzej Szlezak
