Thursday, 22 April 2010
The day after the night(mare) before...
Lodz. In the window of Salon le Grand on Piotrkowska last night.
Monday, 19 April 2010
Saturday, 17 April 2010
The flight into death...
About Smolensk, Katyn and Lech Kaczynski's deathly flight.
In short the facts as I got them by "hear saying".
Katyn 1940. The Stalin regime captured and killed 17.000 (!) people of the Polisch elite (politicians, scientists and so on). Not with machine guns, everybody got a personal treatment. A bullet in the head.
Seventy years after this crime it was for the first time in history that the Russians not denied that it had taken place. This was the reason for this delegation of high officials to visit.
The presidential Toepolev should have been replaced already a long time ago. But they did only talking about it, so far.
There is also a rule that says that never so many important people will be on board on a flight in one plan. But Lech Kaczinsky didn't stop inviting people. This is the reason why the journalists finally had to go with a separate flight and - thanks to this - are alive.
They where in a hurry and to be there - in time! - was extremely important for Lech Kaczynski.
'Katyn' was an issue high on his agenda.
And of course halfway this week the speculations started how it could be happen... Main question: Why tried this Toepolev to land against all reasonable thinking to do not so in this for a landing impossible circumstances? Could it be that the president ordered the pilot to land?
Lech Kaczynski is - or better to say now: was - known as somebody who could be rude in manners. Sometimes acting more as 'somebody from the countryside' then as a president. Wellknown is his use of the word 'dziadu' which means something like 'stinky old man'. Mainly used for people who didn't share his conceptions.
It's not totally unthinkable that the president have said to the pilot when he announced that landing was impossible: Just land 'dziadu'!
Delicate detail. Three years earlier a pilot on a civil (but probably also presidential?) flight who refused against orders to land in Georgia because it was in war was fired for this reason...
If so: One thing he has reached. His great dream that the crimes against Poland committed in 'Katyn' should be on the map in the world.
And his picture on Piotrkowska...
with a memorial...
And books about 'Katyn' everywhere in the bookshops.
See also: Piotrkowska 16th April
And about this speculations
In short the facts as I got them by "hear saying".
Katyn 1940. The Stalin regime captured and killed 17.000 (!) people of the Polisch elite (politicians, scientists and so on). Not with machine guns, everybody got a personal treatment. A bullet in the head.
Seventy years after this crime it was for the first time in history that the Russians not denied that it had taken place. This was the reason for this delegation of high officials to visit.
The presidential Toepolev should have been replaced already a long time ago. But they did only talking about it, so far.
There is also a rule that says that never so many important people will be on board on a flight in one plan. But Lech Kaczinsky didn't stop inviting people. This is the reason why the journalists finally had to go with a separate flight and - thanks to this - are alive.
They where in a hurry and to be there - in time! - was extremely important for Lech Kaczynski.
'Katyn' was an issue high on his agenda.
And of course halfway this week the speculations started how it could be happen... Main question: Why tried this Toepolev to land against all reasonable thinking to do not so in this for a landing impossible circumstances? Could it be that the president ordered the pilot to land?
Lech Kaczynski is - or better to say now: was - known as somebody who could be rude in manners. Sometimes acting more as 'somebody from the countryside' then as a president. Wellknown is his use of the word 'dziadu' which means something like 'stinky old man'. Mainly used for people who didn't share his conceptions.
It's not totally unthinkable that the president have said to the pilot when he announced that landing was impossible: Just land 'dziadu'!
Delicate detail. Three years earlier a pilot on a civil (but probably also presidential?) flight who refused against orders to land in Georgia because it was in war was fired for this reason...
If so: One thing he has reached. His great dream that the crimes against Poland committed in 'Katyn' should be on the map in the world.
And his picture on Piotrkowska...
with a memorial...
And books about 'Katyn' everywhere in the bookshops.
See also: Piotrkowska 16th April
And about this speculations
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Thursday, 25 March 2010
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