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Analysts: Troublesome Symbolic Can Be Seen in Polish Tragedy
Saturday 10 April 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, April 10 (TASR) – If it is proven that the tragic crash of the airplane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski in Russia on Saturday morning was merely an accident, it most likely won't have any impact on Russian-Polish relations, said Slovak political analyst Miroslav Kusy for TASR on the same day.
"If everything is investigated, it shouldn't affect the mutual relations in any scale," he said Kusy sees a very troublesome symbolic in the tragic event, because it happened in connection with another tragedy from 70 years ago, which the Polish delegation came to commemorate to Russia - the Katyn massacre, in which thousands of Polish army officers were slaughtered by Soviet forces.
"It's a tragedy that has deeply affected not only the Polish nation, but also people who share common historic fate, our country including," said political analyst Michal Horsky. At the same time he noted that if it wasn't for the slaughter of thousands of Polish army officials 70 years ago, no Polish plane with such delegation would be ever flying there.
The plane carrying President Kaczynski and First Lady Maria, as well as Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army Franciszek Gagor, Central Bank governor Slawomir Skrzypek, MPs and leading historians, crashed while landing in a heavy fog at Smolensk airport on Saturday morning. Russian authorities announced that nobody of the 96 people on board of the Tupolev TU-154 plane, including 88 of the official Polish delegation, survived the crash.
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