Posted on 04/10/2010 6:15:15 AM PDT by moneyrunner
The Woods of Smolensk
The Polish President and numerous top officials died aboard a TU-154 while trying to land at Smolensk airbase.He was on his way to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Katyn Massacre which took place in the woods near that city. ... After Poland went down before the onslaught of Nazi and Soviet forces in 1939-40, Joseph Stalin and Lavrenty Beria decided to decapitate the country’s society. Since the Polish army required all university graduates to become reserve officers, the NKVD decided to kill two birds with one stone and eliminate the both the trained military manpower of Poland and its “intelligensia”. In 1940 the Communists shot more than 22,000 Polish officers in woods near Smolensk. These included an admiral, two generals, 24 colonels, 79 lieutenant colonels, 258 majors, 654 captains, 17 naval captains, seven chaplains, three landowners, a prince, 20 university professors, hundeds of physicians lawyers, engineers and teachers, more than 100 writers and journalists among others.
Poland was left stunned by the news that their president, his wife, and a whole tier of the Polish elite had been killed.
From the BBC:
The BBC's Adam Easton, in Warsaw, says the crash is a catastrophe for the Polish people. [see pictures]
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Or, it could be Putin’s little way of saying F you to OBlahBlah.
Do think Putin is threatening the effeminate community organizer ?
a Brit on CNN was suggesting that they were at the wrong airport .This airport did not have ILS and attempted to wave off the pilot.
Could it be nothing more than a drunk pilot who is lost.
I think he is telling the former Soviet block, “OBlahBlah is my bitch. I gave it to him in the nuclear treaty, and now I took out the Polish leadership right in front of his nose. Do you want to be next?”
Wooof !spot on !
Why do your responses appear as Uri’el-2012
but when people reply to you it appears as UriÂ’el-2012?
My guess is that there different code tables. JimRob said they were caused by code problems at FR
I agree with you.
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I think he is telling the former Soviet block, “OBlahBlah is my bitch. I gave it to him in the nuclear treaty, and now I took out the Polish leadership right in front of his nose. Do you want to be next?”
Ping?
Ping?
I'm inclined to think the Russians would not have caused this one intentionally, although it is hard to imagine that Putin would have wanted to be involved in a Katyn commemoration ceremony.
There is no question that the Russians will now try to whitewash any possible fault they may have had in the plane repairs, etc.
But Putin was already involved in a Katyn commemoration ceremony with the polish prime minister Tusk on Wednesday, during which Putin did say publicly that Stalin’s regime was the perp in the Katyn massacre (the original one)
People, I’m really amazed at how little background you know about this thing.
Maybe not Katyn, I would say this is more like Palmiry, where the Nazis killed across the board the best and brightest of Poland, and not just officers.
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