"and the name of the birch ninety-six"

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"THE NAME OF THE BIRTHDAY SIX"

"A name of birch ninety-six". About the sub-Smolensk tree that divided Poland.

Podsmolenska birch, which became the subject of political dispute in Poland.

– Where is this birch, Mr. Lasek? – he asked with mockery on Monday at TVN 24 Adam Hofman, commenting on the latest findings of scientists focused around Antoni Macierewicz.

He besides added that "the birch explanation was yet overturned". It seems, however, that contrary to his words, the issue of the causes of the Smolensk tragedy is inactive in the opinion of Poles far from the definitive solution, and the frail tree as it divided, so it inactive divides.

“Betula L. (Lat. Betula L.) is simply a genus of trees and shrubs belonging to the birch family. Includes a hard to specify number of species, as interspecies of hard taxonomic position are easy formed within the genus’ – we read on Wikipedia about what birch is.

But in the collective imagination of Poles, it has become much more than a tree over the last fewer years. In the past, it is most likely associated mainly with the country's autumn scenery of the Ivorian Polish village, which has been at the heart of the most severe political dispute in the country for 3 years.

BROAD AND A SHORT OF TUPOLEW

Of all the birches increasing this part of the world, I think only this 1 has been so thoroughly examined and photographed and as 1 of the fewer has its own website in Wikipedia.

It is simply a Smolensk birch, besides called “tank birch” or Bodin birch.

EMT Nikolai Bodin is 1 of the witnesses to the crash. He saw the tupolev with president Kaczyński on board with his wing over a tree.

And this collision was considered by the MAK committee and the Miller committee to be the direct origin of the rip-off of the wing fragment and then the crash of the presidential aircraft.

However, researchers from the parliamentary squad on explaining the causes of the Tu-154 disaster, specified as Prof. Wiesław Binienda, disagree with this version of events.

Their own reports, as well as the press articles of journalists sympathetic with Antoni Macerewicz's band, cast uncertainty not only the anticipation of the “soft” tree being damaged by the “soft” tree or the circumstances of the alleged collision, but besides in any cases they completely question the existence of “Smolensk” birch.

The Smolensk dispute over birch in the media lasts from the first months after the crash. And there's no indication that it should be over soon.

BROZ — SYMBOL

– The birch is not crucial for the causes of the disaster. She's just symbolic. For me, the problem is different — 1 has to answer the question of why the plane is so low,” said Maciej Lasek, president of the State Air Accident Investigation Commission in 1 of the interviews.

And it has the rightness of Lasek erstwhile he says that birch is symbolic: due to the fact that the dispute has long been not only about whether Tupolev lost part of his wing or not erstwhile he collided with it.

Over time, the issue of birch was considered almost decisive as to whether or not there was an assassination in Smolensk. due to the fact that if the authoritative communicative (called by the right scornfully the hypothesis of “tank birch”) is not true, many believe that this means not only that the investigation was carried out carelessly. This may besides mean that the causes of the Smolensk disaster were different – evidently related to the participation of 3rd parties.

But the importance of birch does not end there: due to the fact that the dynamics of media discussion rapidly made the attitude to birch begin to specify our political affiliation:

“WHERE BEAUTIFUL TO THE TOWN, WHO v., THE TEACHING”

Therefore, both sides of the political dispute with specified fierceness threw themselves into a “dendrological” discussion.

Endless Discourses

– Did anyone climb a tree (if so – who) or bring a crane from which the measurement was made (if so – who brought it and who measured the tree from the crane?).

Were average measuring measures or laser meters utilized (if so, which ones are the models of devices?) asked Anita Gargas in the article “One birch, 10 questions”. Their thoroughness laughs only at first glance: anyone who plunges into a small bit of a birch dispute for months will announcement that the smallest item can be of large importance in these discussions.

Right-wing politicians, journalists and scientists attack authoritative findings at all turn, trying to undermine their credibility: Janusz Wojciechowski asked how it was possible that the wing broke in a collision with the birch, since in the case of WTC bombings the wings of aircraft remained intact until the full device exploded. Right-wing portals compared photos taken under Smolensk at different dates, trying to show that the birch was manipulated, placing fragments of the plane's hull.

Sometimes the findings of different people against the thesis of “tank” birch are not consistent:

Prof. Binienda erstwhile claimed that the tree "was sick", late Chris Cieszewski of the American University of Georgia suggested that it was cut down a fewer days before April 10, while paper journalists “New State” claimed that... this peculiar birch did not be at all.

But to all those who mock the deficiency of professionalism of experts associated with Antoni Macierewicz, it should be recalled that translations from representatives of the state commissions did not always sound professional and full convincing: the pictorial comparisons with WTC Maciej Lasek himself opposed equally distant metaphors, as described by Gazeta.pl.

The plane was flying at 280 kilometres an hour. You can easy check, for example, with your car, what happens to it if you enter birch at a velocity of 280 kilometres – he answered 1 of the journalists at a press conference to ask about the plane's collision with birch.

Brzoz in Popocultura

As scientists, politicians, and publicists raised and compounded further arguments in the dispute, the symbol of Smolenian birch slow penetrated popular culture.

She found not only a commemorative coin and a memorial to the victims at St. Anna in the capital, but besides became an inspiration for the poem written by poet Aleksander Szumański.

The poem was titled

BLOOD

And the name of the ninety-six.

Solid birch

Innocent

She got hurt.

She cried.

Wounded

I'm dying.

I've been deprived of my life.

That's what she said

Innocent

They know it too.

The taste of hell.

Over Twilight Airport

AND THE NAME OF THE BLOOD

Nineteen Six

Alexander Szumański

But they didn't always talk about birch so pathetically. Twice it became an inspiration for satirical drawings by Andrzej Krauz, it was besides a pretext for online memes.

She even advertised a student party.

A lot of birch jokes came up on the net erstwhile there was a large discrepancy as to how advanced the wing of the plane was cutting down the tree: the military prosecutors talked about a tallness of 7.70m, investigators from the Miller Commission gave a tallness of 5.10m.

At 1 point, it was known that in fact it was precisely 666 cm. The jokes related to “the number of Satan” were sprinkled like a sleeve.

Smolensk birch was besides devoted to the slogan in Polish nonsense, and on Allegro there were auctions offering “tank birch from Smolensk” or “Smolensk Birch”.

For 1 object of worship, for another reason to mock, for yet another crowning proof of state weight – either way the Smolensk birch has permanently entered our everyday life, and the temperature of the dispute around it indicates that it will not rapidly vanish from it.

On Tuesday, Tomasz Terlikowski posted on his Facebook a photograph of a birch grove bathed in fog, signing it briefly: “I like autumn”. Under the photography, the commentaries on conferences, armoured birches and the MAK committee rapidly swarmed. “Even by commenting on a completely neutral photo, can’t you halt the allusion to Smolensk?” individual asked. It seems not.

Read also:

"The birch was broken on 5 April, and the Laska squad should not analyse the catastrophe – the Second Smolensk Conference is taking place".

"Smolensk birch advertised a student party. "Plakat associates with dance on graves".

Documents, sources, quotations:

The “Smolensk birch” which divided Poland can be read in the text

"And the name of the birch ninety-six" http://natemat.pl/79295,a-imie-brooms-nineteen-six-o-trees-which-divided-polske

as well as Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brzeza_self%C5%84sk (link is external) "In 2012, the tree became the subject of the poem by poet Alexander Szumański entitled "A name of ninety birch".

Alexander Szumański

"Kresowy Serwis Informacyjny", "Lviv meetings", "Voice of Poland" Toronto

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