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Two hundred years together

April 16, 2010 Nikolai Svanidze

Now you can, returning to the tragedy that had happened, put forward any hypotheses regarding why it occurred and why the Russian leadership reacted to it in such an amazingly adequate way. To contribute how many times the aircraft tried to land - four, as I immediately reported Putin on the spot, or only one, as it seemed, was in reality. As if it has some kind of meaning and testifies to something. Yes, he has no and does not indicate anything.

And what made the late President of Kachinsky, and it is precisely such a scenario that seems the most believable, go to a deadly, irresponsible risk and to command the pilot to sit down, despite the direct ban on the dispatcher?

Stubbornness. The same fee, the boyish desire to flaunt daring, and even the prevailing habit of doing so always and everywhere in an unreasonable confidence that the curve will take out again? It may very well be that the behavior model is quite common, especially in the highest echelons of power.

Or distrust. To Russia. The painful, burning, more than two hundred years old, which entered the blood of every Polish patriot at the end of the 18th century, strengthened in the XIX and extremely powerfully intensified in the XX.

And personally to Putin. In which, one way or another, the rehabilitation of Stalin began. Who said something not very intelligible, but quite acquittal about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. And who, by the way, did not invite him now, Kachinsky, but invited Tusk.

And now these people whom he does not believe, does not want to believe, report that fog, that you can’t sit down. But he will sit. He will do it. It will necessarily, and it doesn’t matter if there is this fog or they just invented it. They cannot stop him. Because he is the president. And he is a Pole. And the ashes of those killed in Katyn is knocking in his heart, and where, where, and here he should be on time. And it will be. Minute per minute. Like a clock. Like a bayonet.

And this is probably.

And it is even more likely that all the factors worked together.

But this does not matter. Everything has already happened.

The name “Katyn” is Polish (and the locals say so, Smolensk became Russians only in the 17th century) is pronounced with an emphasis on the first syllable. The root is “Kat”, which means - the executioner, the killer.

And this also means that the long-rotten ghoul, mustachioed Kat, reached out of the ground, so that once again, 70 years later, to grab living Polish blood.

This, of course, is mysticism, but it is not easy to abstract from it, especially to the Poles. And it will not be easy for them, with their forever bleeding wounds, to heal, lick this, new, terrible. God news, how many efforts and years will take, and it is unlikely that it will work out.

And perhaps in a long, historical, far from always accurate memory and this national pain will also be emotionally connected with Russia. Russian territory, Russian plane. Yes, the first time or something ...

Two hundred years together.

If our relationship does not change in the future, then this is the bast in the same line.

Today there was a weak, frail hope that such a familiar course of events is not the only possible.

And again questions.
Why did Putin hug a tight?

In an emotional impulse or by pragmatic calculation? With sincere sympathy in the heart or with shale gas in my head?

Yes, God knows him. But he hugged him, and everyone saw it.

Is our brutal authorities frightened that the Poles, from great love for us (i.e.), is it that they will think about us (i.e. about him) in connection with the disaster and then certainly never, they will forgive anyone? If so, then it was correctly scared.

Or did it just decide to take advantage of the convenient moment to try to break a long -standing and bad trend? Then - reasonably decided.

The fact remains. In everything that is connected with the fall of the plane and the death of the President of Poland and a significant part of the Polish elite, Russian leaders behave impeccably. Those. Not just correctly, but extremely open and heartily. In order not to say: warning.

And the Poles cannot evaluate this at all. At least, it is difficult for them not to notice this, although now they are not up to that.

It’s painfully infrequently we pamper them.

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