Sejm Marshal Bronislaw Komorowski has set...
on July 4.Both to east of Poland and to the west, the presidential election is the subject of much attention. Under the Kaczynski twins (Jaroslaw was once the prime minister while Lech was president), Poland picked fights with Germany and Russia, and their rampant, almost paranoid nationalism perplexed the West. They led Poland into bizarre anti-Russian alliances with other eastern Europeans, which were based solely on a shared hostility to a Kremlin that "has not changed one bit on the inside."
Russia"s response to the April tragedy was a wake-up call both for Poles and Russians, which isn"t to say there was anything remarkable about it. Rather, the Russian leaders and the Russian people reacted as any nation would have to a tragic accident in their country that killed the president and a considerable part of the political, military and cultural elite of another country.
At Lech Kaczynski"s funeral, Komorowski said, "The bells of Krakow are ringing in
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