Kaczynski, nationalist reformer, dies in crash
Lech Kaczynski built his political career as a right-wing nationalist by battling Russian influence in Poland
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The Polish nation has been left traumatised by the death of its president and a swath of its higher establishment in a plane crash in Smolensk
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A gunman killed a party worker and said he wanted to murder Poland’s rightwing opposition leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, in a sign of the growing brutality of the country’s politics
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A victory for Jaroslaw Kaczynski on July 4 would be no catastrophe. Poland did well under his brother’s presidency. Yet Bronislaw Komorowski, for all his shortcomings, is a preferable candidate
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The death of the president is a severe blow but it should not lead to political instability or harm Poland’s economic prospects
Grieving Poles look to lessons of history
What has overlaid this week’s grief with an aura of patriotism is the haunted place where the airliner crashed. There is a deep symbolism attached to the site, and some see it as a ‘second Katyn’
Tragedy will prove Poland’s strength
Polish state institutions, despite the loss of so many leaders, are functioning and the central bank has made clear its work will not be disrupted. In view of Poland’s historical travails, it is no small matter
Disaster can help nation make peace with past
Air disaster has come in different circumstances from the tragedies of the 20th century. Then, Poles were suffering from uncertainty. Now, the country is in its longest period of prosperity in 200 years
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