Jarosław Kaczyński attended Monday's unveiling ceremony dedicated to his brother, Lech Kaczyński, on the building of the Gdańsk Institute of National Memory. During his speech Jarosław Kaczyński returned to conspiracy explanation about the Smolensk assassination. The president of Law and Justice continued by claiming that the death of the erstwhile president of the Republic of Poland was caused by a Russian attack, as Lech Kaczyński was to be a threat to our east neighbour.
In the message of the president of the Law and Justice Office there was no deficiency of mention to the current power in Poland. “We all know what times we are surviving at this moment. I guess we all hope it's over soon. And we are fighting to end it," Jarosław Kaczyński said at the very beginning of the speech.
Information on the board
During his speech, Jarosław Kaczyński besides pointed out that the late president had pursued a policy serving the interests of the Polish national community, while opposing the plans and actions of Russia and Putin. "That is why he died, and there can be no uncertainty that we had to deal with on April 10, 2010, not with an air accident, but with a deliberate assassination. He died due to the fact that he was a man who became dangerous to Russia," said PiS president.
However, it should be mentioned that we will not find any information about the alleged assassination on the plaque itself. The text contains only words: "He died in the service of the Homeland in the Tu-154M plane crash on 10 April 2010 under Smolensk on his way to an anniversary celebration commemorating Polish victims of russian genocide in Katyń".
Smolensk disaster and conspiracy theories
The Smolensk disaster was the second largest in terms of the number of catastrophe victims in the past of Polish aviation and the largest in terms of the number of catastrophe victims in the past of Polish Air Force. As we know, no of the people aboard survived the crash. The authoritative origin of the crash was crew errors specified as descending below the minimum descent tallness at an excessive descent speed. The weather conditions themselves were not conducive either.
Several twelve census theories were created about the event and many of them mention to Russia's participation, and even Donald Tusk. Jarosław Kaczyński's conviction that there was a conspiracy was gradually born. During the presidential campaign, from late April to early July 2010, Kaczyński didn't accuse anyone of bombing. In his electoral spot, he addressed the Russians' friends, thanking them for their sympathy and sympathy. PiS politicians started referring to the assassination only after Kaczyński lost in the presidential election.
In 2023 Social Changes performed a poll for the portal wpolityka.pl. The respondents were asked if they thought that the crash of the Smolensk presidential plane could have been the culprit of Putin's assassination. 38% of respondents said yes to this question, including 20% said yes. 18% considered that it was ‘perhaps so’.
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