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Vasaryova: Przewoznik Wanted to Write Book about Slovakia
Saturday 10 April 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, April 10 (TASR) – Polish Secretary-General of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites Andrzej Przewoznik, who is among the victims of the tragic crash of the airplane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski on Saturday morning, wanted to write a book about smuggling forbidden Christian materials from Poland to Slovakia during Communism, TASR was told by former Slovak ambassador to Poland Magda Vasaryova later that day.
"He was a great expert on Slovak history and my friend," said Vasaryova. According to her, Przewoznik recently finished a book about the tragedy in the Katyn forest, where after the invasion to Poland in 1939 Soviet secret forces murdered 15,000 Polish military officers.
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. The delegation was flying from Warsaw to Smolensk to mark the 70th anniversary of the massacre in the Katyn forest.
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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