Pic courtesy: Dailymail.ukThe fact that Polish president Lech Kaczynski could be killed in a plane crash arranged by Russian special services, was reported on March 13, 2010 by Georgian TV channel Imedi.
It is to be mentioned that TV channel Imedi in a report on alleged Russian aggression against Georgia, reported the killing of the Polish President by the Russian terrorist organization FSB. The half-hour-long film, shown in Georgia, reported the killing of Lech Kaczynski in an explosion on his presidential plane.
The statement by the head of the international affairs committee of the state duma parliament, Kosachev, who blabbed about a plane crash near Smolensk, seems rather ambiguous in this regard.
In an interview with Interfax, he said he was "in a state of shock and horror" over the news. "The soul trembles to think that Katyn has taken new victims", Kosachev said.
Recall that thousands of Polish officers were executed in the Katyn on the orders of the Kremlin and Stalin personally. Until recently, Russia has been trying to deny its guilt and responsibility for the massacre. Moscow has not apologized so far for the crime.
Moreover, Moscow tried to do everything possible to prevent the Polish President Lech Kaczynski visit Katyn. Diplomatic scandals broke more than once on this occasion.
Some historical facts are interesting in this regard.
On September 30, 1939 Sikorski became a prime minister of the Polish exile government (and remained on this post until the death in 1943).
The discovery and publication by Germans of the Katyn graves led to the rupture Sikorski with Moscow. In April 1943, these relations were formally broken off by Stalin's government after the Sikorski demanded investigation into the Katyn massacre of Polish servicemen.
Sikorsky delivered sharp charges to the Soviet Union, in particular demanding Churchill to break relations with the USSR. A few weeks later, General Wladyslaw Sikorski and his daughter Sophia died in a plane crash on July 4, 1943 near Gibraltar.
In November 2008, his body was exhumed and tested by Polish experts to confirm the version of Soviet secret police's involvement in his death.
We would like to mention thereupon that the Polish President Lech Kaczynski was one of the most hated by Moscow Polish leaders. Indeed, the Kremlin had reasons to hate Kaczynski. Here are some facts -
* Among the decisions of city administration of Warsaw under the leadership of then-mayor of the capital of Poland Kaczynski - rename one of the largest squares in the Warsaw area after the first Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudayev
* Kaczynski's election campaign was based on slogans of national revival and the historical responsibility of Russia to Poland.
* On Nov. 15, 2006 Kaczynski suggested the EU to impose sanctions against Russia if Moscow refuses to lift ban on import of Polish meat and agricultural products.
* Poland vetoed talks on cooperation between the European Union and Russia, which were to begin at the EU-Russia summit on November 24.
* During the war in South Ossetia in August 2008, Kaczynski announced that fully supports Georgia.
* After the war with Georgia, Poland agreed with the US on deploying on its territory missile defense system - the interceptor missiles.
* At Kaczynski's initiative Poland was going to rid Europe of Russian gas dependence with a sharp increase in production of its own shale gas. In this case Poland may become the largest European supplier of this type of fuel.
It is to be mentioned that Lech Kaczynski said that one of the goals of Russia's aggression against Georgia was an attempt to prevent Europe to get rid of the gas dependence from Moscow. Kaczynski has also actively lobbied for Georgia's accession to NATO.
Many ordinary people in the world doubt that the crash was accidental. So in the guestbook of Polish Radio the Belarus resident wrote:
"The signs appear more and more worrying that the Russians were involved. From the Nazi-Russian pact and Katyn to the recent Russian and Belarusian war games near the Polish border, Russia has always considered Poland its own territory, lost in a time of weakness much as China threatens all over democratic Taiwan.
The difference is that Russia shows no compunction about murdering its citizens abroad and backing its threats with violence (vide Georgia) and economic measures (closing oil pipelines). A Russian plane recently "repaired" in a Russian factory? If it is simply a coincidence, through its actions Russia immediately comes under suspicion.
My condolences to our Polish allies who have always supported us since breaking free from Russian control".
It is to be mentioned that according to Russian media "Kaczynski's presidential plane was fully overhauled in December, the general director of the Aviakor aviation maintenance plant in Samara, Russia told Rossiya-24. The plant repaired the plane's three engines, retrofitted electronic and navigation equipment and updated the interior", Alexei Gusev said.
In turn, the Russian authorities actively promote a version of "natural environment", which became the "cause of the accident". Moscow points to the thick fog that enveloped the military airfield near Smolensk. The fog, for some reason, did not prevent eye-witnesses quite clearly see the details of aircraft flight.
"The plane tilted to the left before crashing, witness Slawomir Sliwinski told the state news channel Rossiya-24. He said there were two loud explosions when the aircraft hit the ground and burst into flames", AP reports.
Meanwhile, Polish media do not exclude FSB's involvement in this crash. The version of terror attack by the FSB is also being considered.
In particular, a Polish expert on the TV channel POLSAT called improbable Russian version that the destruction of the Polish plane was due to bad weather, pilot error, etc.
The Polish flags have been lowered to half-mast. Under Poland's constitution, the leader of the lower house of Parliament, now acting president, has 14 days to announce new elections, which must then take place within 60 days.
According to experts there are some "strangenesses" in this tragedy. The Polish side asserts that 88 people flew from Poland, the number of dead passengers of a flight, according to Russia amounts to 132 people.
All passengers were died, as Russian media have reported an hour after the tragedy, although in similar accidents, 80 percent of passengers are usually survive (the drop height is 15 meters, the absence of fire and fuel, increased security measures, etc.). The plane could have landed in other airdrome, but it did not do that.
Polish media outlets seriously doubt the version of the Russian side that the plane was reportedly coming in to land the fourth time. According to Russian media outlets, the press service of the Smolensk region told that the manager allegedly offered the crew to land in Minsk, 200 km from Smolensk, but the crew reportedly decided to land down.
"Skilled pilots often decide to land the plane with the fourth attempt, usually, if the second attempt fails, the pilots land on the alternate aerodrome", said on Polish television, one of the Polish pilots, noting that the president's plane serviced by the best pilots of the country.
The Polish side noted that the tragedy of this magnitude and level occurred for the first time in the world. A large number of top officials of Poland died.
In turn, the Ukrainian media outlets do not exclude that Kaczynski's plane was lured into a trap.
The reason remains unclear why pilots of Tu-154 with the top officials of the Republic of Poland on board decided to use for landing a poorly adapted military airfield "North" near the town of Pechersk, Smolensk region, rather than landing at the airport of Smolensk, Ukrainian RUpor agency wrote.
The agency notes that the existence of a military airport in a particular place on the territory of Russia is a state secret and without the intervention of the military department dispatcher civil service can not recommend it for the landing of foreign government planes. Especially since as noted by TV channel Russia 24 prior to this the airdrome denied landing Russian military aircraft.
If the fact of the interventions of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia (and perhaps actually GRU) will be proved, it would be possible to speculate on the political component of the incident.
Experts have repeatedly pointed to sharply increased role of the Russian military intelligence GRU, after Medvedev's rise to power.
-Department of Monitoring, Kavkaz Center
It is to be mentioned that TV channel Imedi in a report on alleged Russian aggression against Georgia, reported the killing of the Polish President by the Russian terrorist organization FSB. The half-hour-long film, shown in Georgia, reported the killing of Lech Kaczynski in an explosion on his presidential plane.
The statement by the head of the international affairs committee of the state duma parliament, Kosachev, who blabbed about a plane crash near Smolensk, seems rather ambiguous in this regard.
In an interview with Interfax, he said he was "in a state of shock and horror" over the news. "The soul trembles to think that Katyn has taken new victims", Kosachev said.
Recall that thousands of Polish officers were executed in the Katyn on the orders of the Kremlin and Stalin personally. Until recently, Russia has been trying to deny its guilt and responsibility for the massacre. Moscow has not apologized so far for the crime.
Moreover, Moscow tried to do everything possible to prevent the Polish President Lech Kaczynski visit Katyn. Diplomatic scandals broke more than once on this occasion.
Some historical facts are interesting in this regard.
On September 30, 1939 Sikorski became a prime minister of the Polish exile government (and remained on this post until the death in 1943).
The discovery and publication by Germans of the Katyn graves led to the rupture Sikorski with Moscow. In April 1943, these relations were formally broken off by Stalin's government after the Sikorski demanded investigation into the Katyn massacre of Polish servicemen.
Sikorsky delivered sharp charges to the Soviet Union, in particular demanding Churchill to break relations with the USSR. A few weeks later, General Wladyslaw Sikorski and his daughter Sophia died in a plane crash on July 4, 1943 near Gibraltar.
In November 2008, his body was exhumed and tested by Polish experts to confirm the version of Soviet secret police's involvement in his death.
We would like to mention thereupon that the Polish President Lech Kaczynski was one of the most hated by Moscow Polish leaders. Indeed, the Kremlin had reasons to hate Kaczynski. Here are some facts -
* Among the decisions of city administration of Warsaw under the leadership of then-mayor of the capital of Poland Kaczynski - rename one of the largest squares in the Warsaw area after the first Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudayev
* Kaczynski's election campaign was based on slogans of national revival and the historical responsibility of Russia to Poland.
* On Nov. 15, 2006 Kaczynski suggested the EU to impose sanctions against Russia if Moscow refuses to lift ban on import of Polish meat and agricultural products.
* Poland vetoed talks on cooperation between the European Union and Russia, which were to begin at the EU-Russia summit on November 24.
* During the war in South Ossetia in August 2008, Kaczynski announced that fully supports Georgia.
* After the war with Georgia, Poland agreed with the US on deploying on its territory missile defense system - the interceptor missiles.
* At Kaczynski's initiative Poland was going to rid Europe of Russian gas dependence with a sharp increase in production of its own shale gas. In this case Poland may become the largest European supplier of this type of fuel.
It is to be mentioned that Lech Kaczynski said that one of the goals of Russia's aggression against Georgia was an attempt to prevent Europe to get rid of the gas dependence from Moscow. Kaczynski has also actively lobbied for Georgia's accession to NATO.
Many ordinary people in the world doubt that the crash was accidental. So in the guestbook of Polish Radio the Belarus resident wrote:
"The signs appear more and more worrying that the Russians were involved. From the Nazi-Russian pact and Katyn to the recent Russian and Belarusian war games near the Polish border, Russia has always considered Poland its own territory, lost in a time of weakness much as China threatens all over democratic Taiwan.
The difference is that Russia shows no compunction about murdering its citizens abroad and backing its threats with violence (vide Georgia) and economic measures (closing oil pipelines). A Russian plane recently "repaired" in a Russian factory? If it is simply a coincidence, through its actions Russia immediately comes under suspicion.
My condolences to our Polish allies who have always supported us since breaking free from Russian control".
It is to be mentioned that according to Russian media "Kaczynski's presidential plane was fully overhauled in December, the general director of the Aviakor aviation maintenance plant in Samara, Russia told Rossiya-24. The plant repaired the plane's three engines, retrofitted electronic and navigation equipment and updated the interior", Alexei Gusev said.
In turn, the Russian authorities actively promote a version of "natural environment", which became the "cause of the accident". Moscow points to the thick fog that enveloped the military airfield near Smolensk. The fog, for some reason, did not prevent eye-witnesses quite clearly see the details of aircraft flight.
"The plane tilted to the left before crashing, witness Slawomir Sliwinski told the state news channel Rossiya-24. He said there were two loud explosions when the aircraft hit the ground and burst into flames", AP reports.
Meanwhile, Polish media do not exclude FSB's involvement in this crash. The version of terror attack by the FSB is also being considered.
In particular, a Polish expert on the TV channel POLSAT called improbable Russian version that the destruction of the Polish plane was due to bad weather, pilot error, etc.
The Polish flags have been lowered to half-mast. Under Poland's constitution, the leader of the lower house of Parliament, now acting president, has 14 days to announce new elections, which must then take place within 60 days.
According to experts there are some "strangenesses" in this tragedy. The Polish side asserts that 88 people flew from Poland, the number of dead passengers of a flight, according to Russia amounts to 132 people.
All passengers were died, as Russian media have reported an hour after the tragedy, although in similar accidents, 80 percent of passengers are usually survive (the drop height is 15 meters, the absence of fire and fuel, increased security measures, etc.). The plane could have landed in other airdrome, but it did not do that.
Polish media outlets seriously doubt the version of the Russian side that the plane was reportedly coming in to land the fourth time. According to Russian media outlets, the press service of the Smolensk region told that the manager allegedly offered the crew to land in Minsk, 200 km from Smolensk, but the crew reportedly decided to land down.
"Skilled pilots often decide to land the plane with the fourth attempt, usually, if the second attempt fails, the pilots land on the alternate aerodrome", said on Polish television, one of the Polish pilots, noting that the president's plane serviced by the best pilots of the country.
The Polish side noted that the tragedy of this magnitude and level occurred for the first time in the world. A large number of top officials of Poland died.
In turn, the Ukrainian media outlets do not exclude that Kaczynski's plane was lured into a trap.
The reason remains unclear why pilots of Tu-154 with the top officials of the Republic of Poland on board decided to use for landing a poorly adapted military airfield "North" near the town of Pechersk, Smolensk region, rather than landing at the airport of Smolensk, Ukrainian RUpor agency wrote.
The agency notes that the existence of a military airport in a particular place on the territory of Russia is a state secret and without the intervention of the military department dispatcher civil service can not recommend it for the landing of foreign government planes. Especially since as noted by TV channel Russia 24 prior to this the airdrome denied landing Russian military aircraft.
If the fact of the interventions of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia (and perhaps actually GRU) will be proved, it would be possible to speculate on the political component of the incident.
Experts have repeatedly pointed to sharply increased role of the Russian military intelligence GRU, after Medvedev's rise to power.
-Department of Monitoring, Kavkaz Center
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