[Revolting cat!]

What, pray tell, Polish Prime Minister was murdered by the Russians and when?

[miss marmelstein]

A plane crash - I thought it took out the whole Polish cabinet but my memory is not so good. People suspect that the Russians deliberately staged it.

[happyathome]

“What, pray tell, Polish Prime Minister was murdered by the Russians and when?”

Lech Kaczynski and basically the entire Polish military and national security leadership died in a plane crash in 2010 when trying to fly into Russia to take part in a memorial service for the Polish citizens killed in Katyn in 1940. The Poles suspect that the Russians manipulated the ground navigation systems (Ivan wasn’t too happy about having to recognize the Kayn massacre). The Russians claim that there was ground fog and the Polish pilot ignored a recommendation to fly to an alternate airport.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Kaczy%C5%84ski

[potlatch]

In December of 2010. Many threads posted here on FreeRepublic

LINK

[katana]

Here is a decent link to what happened: http://uaddit.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=13212

The conspiracy theories have been flying in Poland (and elsewhere) ever since and for good reason. The Russians don't exactly have a spotless history when it comes to dealing with troublesome Poles, including a certain nearly assassinated Pontiff.

[Cronos]

The conspiracy theory since 2010 is that the plane crash at Smolensk (on the way to Katyn) of former Prime Minister Kaczyńskiej was engineered by the Russians

Kaczyńskiej opposed being friendly to the Germans and Russians

The plane crash killed 93 Polish intelligencia -- to them it was like a second Katyń when Stalin's boys killed off thousands of Polish officers and intelligentsja

Do I believe it -- kinda. I initially taught that was too stupid of the Russians, but looking at Putin's foolish attempt to intimidate his neighbors to the west instead of worrying about the Moslems to the south and the chinese to the east.

[Cronos]

The conspiracy theory since 2010 is that the plane crash at Smolensk (on the way to Katyn) of former President Kaczyńskiej was engineered by the Russians

Kaczyńskiej opposed being friendly to the Germans and Russians

The plane crash killed 93 Polish intelligencia -- to them it was like a second Katyń when Stalin's boys killed off thousands of Polish officers and intelligentsja

Do I believe it -- kinda. I initially taught that was too stupid of the Russians, but looking at Putin's foolish attempt to intimidate his neighbors to the west instead of worrying about the Moslems to the south and the chinese to the east.