So I surfaced from some deadlines and saw the news from Poland: the plane crash. It looks almostincomprehensiblybad. I have nothing useful to say, but I'd be lighting candles if it were my people.
It seems an evil concatenation, very disturbing. The dark eeriness of the event is well captured in these two paragraphs:
"Kaczynski had been flying to Smolensk to attend the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, where Soviet secret police executed 15,000 Polish officers in one of the most notorious incidents of the second world war. In a further tragic twist, family members of the Katyn victims were on board the president's plane. Others were waiting at the airport to meet him.
"Although there was no suspicion of foul play yesterday, the extraordinary timing and location of the catastrophe – together with Kaczynski's known antipathy towards the Kremlin – are likely to fuel conspiracy theories on both sides."
My intuition says there was no foul play; I somehow hope it's wrong. For something that weird to not be foul play is almost too scary to think about.
My first thought is that it probably isn't foul play, but that fact is put into suspicion by the fact that Vladamir Putin is essentially the nonfictional version of Francisco Scaramanga.
And he's taking 'personal charge' of the investigation, I hear. Still, no one seems to be suggesting anything untoward, nor do I really see what anyone would have to gain by this.
It was completely Putin. All the liberals were on that plane, including Poland's one LGBT activist. And Russia's still bitter about losing the Pale, one is certain.
It's very sad. Certainly eerie. And yet, who stacks all their luminaries on one plane like that?
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"Kaczynski had been flying to Smolensk to attend the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, where Soviet secret police executed 15,000 Polish officers in one of the most notorious incidents of the second world war. In a further tragic twist, family members of the Katyn victims were on board the president's plane. Others were waiting at the airport to meet him.
"Although there was no suspicion of foul play yesterday, the extraordinary timing and location of the catastrophe – together with Kaczynski's known antipathy towards the Kremlin – are likely to fuel conspiracy theories on both sides."
My intuition says there was no foul play; I somehow hope it's wrong. For something that weird to not be foul play is almost too scary to think about.
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Oh.
My first thought is that it probably isn't foul play, but that fact is put into suspicion by the fact that Vladamir Putin is essentially the nonfictional version of Francisco Scaramanga.
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It's very sad. Certainly eerie. And yet, who stacks all their luminaries on one plane like that?