Gloomy Saturday

10/04/2010 - All of us at the cosmopolitan review send our deepest sympathy to the families of President Kaczynski and of all the other victims who died in the tragic accident in Smolensk. We share the grief of the Polish nation, and of Poles in the worldwide diaspora as we mourn the loss of so many gifted and dedicated men and women who served their country with distinction.

+ Krystyna Bochenek

+ gen. Tadeusz Buk

+ Grzegorz Dolniak

+ Grażyna Gęsicka

+ P. Gosiewski

+ Mariusz Handzlik

+ I. Jaruga-Nowacka

+ R. Kaczorowski

+ S. Karpiniuk

+ Andrzej Karweta

+ J. Kochanowski

+ Janusz Kurtyka

+ Tomasz Merta

+ A. Natalli-Świat

+ Piotr Nurowski

+ Maciej Płażyński

+ Ks. Tadeusz Płoski

+ A. Przewoźnik

+ Krzysztof Putra

+ Sławomir Skrzypek

+ Władysław Stasiak

+ A. Szczygło

+ Jerzy Szmajdziński

+ Szymanek-Deresz

+ A. Walentynowicz

+ Z. Wassermann

+ Wiesław Woda

+ Paweł Wypych

+ Janusz Zakrzeński

+ inne ofiary / other victims

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BY CR CONTRIBUTORS: Krzysztof Bobiński, Wanda Urbanska, Justine Jablonska

BBC News - Looking beyond Poland's 'unprecedented disaster'

10 Apr 2010 ... Krzysztof Bobinski consider the immediate and longer-term effects of the 70th anniversary of the massacre in a wood outside Smolensk. ...

Remembering the Katyn Forest Massacre

7 Apr 2010 By Wanda Urbanska After weeks of delay, the Russians issued my friend Allen Paul a visa yesterday. He had been invited by Prime Minister Donald Tusk to be a part of the Polish delegation to the ceremony at Katyn, to mark the 70th anniversary of the Soviet massacre of more than 20,000 of Poland’s military officers and reservists, its best and brightest, in 1940.

Washington Post: Meeting of Russian, Polish leaders could shed light on 1940 massacre

7 Apr 2010 By Justine Jablonska A historic meeting scheduled for Wednesday between top leaders of Russia and Poland is expected to provide new details about Russia's mass execution of 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn forest in 1940 and may open the way toward improved relations between the two countries.

The mass slaying of the Polish prisoners of war by the Soviet secret police is one of the darker and less known chapters of World War II, said Kyle Parker, a Russian expert and policy adviser to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, an independent U.S. agency that helps formulate American policy for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.