On Saturday April 10th a Polish aeroplane crashed in Smolensk, Russia killing all on board. As this death toll included the Polish President, the head of the Polish central bank, the head of the Polish military, the head of the Polish security service and the head of the Catholic church in Poland the crash, in an instant, wiped out the highest level of the Polish establishment.
As the Soviet era aircraft was less then modern and the conditions at Smolensk were not ideal for flying I'm in little doubt that this was just a plane crash. That meant I should have spent Saturday afternoon writing an obituary for Lech Kaczynski that balanced his truly courageous fight against Communism with his less then noble politics since its fall. Unfortunately a few hours after hearing of the crash my sister turned up with her long history of mental health problems forcing me to successfully move onto the next problem.
The reason I felt comfortable to put the crash on the back burner is because I a confident it was just an accident. Given the history of the situation and the huge loss to Poland it was a spectacular accident but an accident none the less.
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