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chevalier
Guest
Thank you most kindly. Please remember in your prayers those who died, their families, their orphaned country, all those here who have a blood or other tie with Poland. It is a long Polish tradition that if you declare yourself for Poland, then you are one of us, nothing matters more.
President Kaczyński was a great man and a great president. Vilified and ridiculed by the press for standing for Catholic values, far was he from being a stiff or self-important or boring man. He had a sense of humour and smile. Similarly being affixed with a plaque of closed-mindedness for his Catholic views, he was an academic professor with a higher doctorate, though never did he show any ivory tower distance. He was a patriot and if any place can be said to be good for to die for anyone, Katyń was that place for him. He was a patriot in the true sense of the word, never giving in to vain displays, always keeping Poland in his heart and showing his feelings with natural and, let’s say this, regal dignity. As a twist of fate, he was descended from the very first Polish kings. As I am writing this, his coffin is travelling the streets of Warsaw.
Other victims include his wife Maria of whom a political enemy said she was the best thing in this presidency. A true lady, she lived up to the task with dignity and natural charm. Ryszard Kaczorowski was the last of the Exiled Presidents, keeping unbroken and fully constitutional succession under the 1935 constitution under which in times of turbulence a president was entitled to appoint his successor when going out. This was done until 1990, when President Kaczorowski passed the insignia of the office to President Wałęsa. The last defiant president of pre-WW2 Poland, officiating from 1989 to 1990, died where 20,000 of our officers, public servants, doctors, lawyers, politicians where shot in the back of their heads by Soviets. There truly was no place more worthy of claiming him.
Others were the Chief of Staff (Gen. Gągor), leaders of all our branches of service, as well as the operational commander and the military commander of the capital city. Gen. Bishop Płoski (Catholic) and Gen. Archbishop Chodakowski (Orthodox) also gave their lives, together with several military chaplains or chaplains of the Katyń families. Almost all of the closest cooperators of the President died, as did members of the Sejm (the lower house) and the Senate, the Civil Rights Ombudsman, the President of the Institute of National Remembrance (how fitting), Chief of the Office of National Security, President of the National Bank of Poland, Chairman of the Council for Financial Policy, a left-wing presidential candidate currently serving as vice-chairman of the Sejm, a co-founder of the Solidarity movement, the head of the bar, leaders of combatant organisations, a famous actor who frequently played the most eminent pre-WW2 leader Marshal Piłsudski, members of families of murdered officers and others, a translator, seven members of the crew from the elite of the elite of the Air Force.
President Kaczyński was a great man and a great president. Vilified and ridiculed by the press for standing for Catholic values, far was he from being a stiff or self-important or boring man. He had a sense of humour and smile. Similarly being affixed with a plaque of closed-mindedness for his Catholic views, he was an academic professor with a higher doctorate, though never did he show any ivory tower distance. He was a patriot and if any place can be said to be good for to die for anyone, Katyń was that place for him. He was a patriot in the true sense of the word, never giving in to vain displays, always keeping Poland in his heart and showing his feelings with natural and, let’s say this, regal dignity. As a twist of fate, he was descended from the very first Polish kings. As I am writing this, his coffin is travelling the streets of Warsaw.
Other victims include his wife Maria of whom a political enemy said she was the best thing in this presidency. A true lady, she lived up to the task with dignity and natural charm. Ryszard Kaczorowski was the last of the Exiled Presidents, keeping unbroken and fully constitutional succession under the 1935 constitution under which in times of turbulence a president was entitled to appoint his successor when going out. This was done until 1990, when President Kaczorowski passed the insignia of the office to President Wałęsa. The last defiant president of pre-WW2 Poland, officiating from 1989 to 1990, died where 20,000 of our officers, public servants, doctors, lawyers, politicians where shot in the back of their heads by Soviets. There truly was no place more worthy of claiming him.
Others were the Chief of Staff (Gen. Gągor), leaders of all our branches of service, as well as the operational commander and the military commander of the capital city. Gen. Bishop Płoski (Catholic) and Gen. Archbishop Chodakowski (Orthodox) also gave their lives, together with several military chaplains or chaplains of the Katyń families. Almost all of the closest cooperators of the President died, as did members of the Sejm (the lower house) and the Senate, the Civil Rights Ombudsman, the President of the Institute of National Remembrance (how fitting), Chief of the Office of National Security, President of the National Bank of Poland, Chairman of the Council for Financial Policy, a left-wing presidential candidate currently serving as vice-chairman of the Sejm, a co-founder of the Solidarity movement, the head of the bar, leaders of combatant organisations, a famous actor who frequently played the most eminent pre-WW2 leader Marshal Piłsudski, members of families of murdered officers and others, a translator, seven members of the crew from the elite of the elite of the Air Force.