April 10, 2010 Polish Plane Crash Victims
You shall not be forgotten!
Polish Air Force One, Tupolev Tu-154M , PLF101 Flight Manifest
The world was supposed to never find out. The families of the victims were deprived of the right to mourn publicly, to proudly commemorate their relatives. Ground covered the traces of crime and the lie was supposed to erase it from people’s memory. An attempt to hide the truth about Katyń - a result of a decision taken by those who masterminded the crime - became one of the foundations of the communists’ policy in an after-war Poland: a founding lie of the People’s Republic of Poland. It was the time when people had to pay a high price for knowing and remembering the truth about Katyn. However, the relatives of the murdered and other courageous people kept the memory, defended it and passed it on to next generations of Poles. They managed to preserve the memory of Katyn in the times of communism and spread it in the times of free and independent Poland. Therefore, we owe respect and gratitude to all of them, especially to the Katyn Families. On behalf of the Polish state, I offer sincere thanks to you, that by defending the memory of your relatives you managed to save a highly important dimension of our Polish consciousness and identity.- Excerpt from President Lech Kaczynski's Undelivered Speech
List of the TU-154M Passengers and Crew Members:
Pres. Lech Aleksander Kaczyński with wife Maria
1. Lech Kaczyński – President of the Republic of Poland
2. Maria Kaczyńska – wife of the President of the Republic of Poland
3. Ryszard Kaczorowski – former President of the Republic of Poland in exile
4. Joanna Agacka-Indecka – Head of the Supreme Bar Council
5. Ewa Bąkowska – granddaughter of Brigadier General Mieczysław Smorawiński
6. Andrzej Błasik – Polish Air Force Commander
7. Krystyna Bochenek – Deputy Speaker of the Polish Senate
8. Anna Maria Borowska – representative of the Association of Katyń Families
9. Bartosz Borowski - representative of the Association of Katyń Families
10. Tadeusz Buk - Commander of Polish Land Forces
11. Archbishop Miron Chodakowski – Orthodox Chaplain of the Polish Army
12. Czesław Cywiński – Head of the Management World Association of Home Army Soldiers
13. Leszek Deptuła – Polish Sejm deputy
14. Zbigniew Dębski - recipient of the Virtuti Militari
15. Grzegorz Dolniak – Polish Sejm deputy
16. Katarzyna Doraczyńska – staff member at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland
17. Edward Duchnowski - Secretary-General of the Siberian Association
18. Aleksander Fedorowicz – interpreter of the President
19. Janina Fetlińska – Polish senator
20. Jarosław Florczak – Government Protection Bureau officer
21. Artur Francuz - Government Protection Bureau officer
22. Franciszek Gągor - Head of the General Staff of the Polish Army
23. Grażyna Gęsicka – Polish Sejm deputy
24. Kazimierz Gilarski - Commander of the Warsaw Garrison
25. Przemysław Gosiewski – Polish Sejm deputy
26. Ks. Bronisław Gostomski – prelate, priest at the Diocese of Płock, provost at the St. Andrew Bobola Polish RC Church in London
27. Mariusz Handzlik – Undersecretary of State at the Chancellery of the Polish President
28. Father Roman Indrzejczyk – Chaplain to the Polish President
29. Paweł Janeczek - Government Protection Bureau officer
30. Dariusz Jankowski - staff member at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland
31. Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka – Polish Sejm deputy
32. Father Józef Joniec – Head of the Parafiada Association
33. Sebastian Karpiniuk – Polish Sejm deputy
34. Andrzej Karweta - Commander of the Polish Navy
35. Mariusz Kazana – Director of Diplomatic Protocol for the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
36. Janusz Kochanowski – Human Rights Defender
37. Stanisław Komornicki – Chancellor of the Chapter of the Order of Military Virtuti Military
38. Stanisław Jerzy Komorowski - Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of National Defence
39. Paweł Krajewski - Government Protection Bureau officer
40. Andrzej Kremer - Undersecretary of State at Ministry of Foreign Affairs
41. Father Zdzisław Król – chaplain to the Warsaw Katyń Family 1987-2007
42. Janusz Krupski – Head of the Office for Combat Veterans and Victims of Persecution
43. Janusz Kurtyka – President, Institute of National Remembrance
44. Father Andrzej Kwaśnik – chaplain to the Association of Katyń Families
45. Bronisław Kwiatkowski – Commander of Operational Component of the Polish Armed Forces
46. Wojciech Lubiński - Polish President's personal physician
47. Tadeusz Lutoborski - representative of the Association of Katyń Families
48. Barbara Mamińska - staff member at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland
49. Zenona Mamontowicz-Łojek - representative of the Association of Katyń Families
50. Stefan Melak – Head of the Katyń Committee
51. Tomasz Merta – Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
52. Dariusz Michałowski - Government Protection Bureau officer
53. Stanisław Mikke – Deputy Head of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites
54. Aleksandra Natalli-Świat – Polish Sejm deputy
55. Janina Natusiewicz-Mirer – accompanying person
56. Piotr Nosek - Government Protection Bureau officer
57. Piotr Nurowski – Head of the Polish Olympic Committee
58. Bronisława Orawiec-Löffler - representative of the Association of Katyń Families
59. Father Osiński - Military Ordinariate of Poland
60. Father Adam Pilch - Evangelical Military Priesthood of the Polish Army
61. Katarzyna Piskorska - representative of the Association of Katyń Families
62. Maciej Płażyński - Head of Wspólnota Polska Association
63. Bishop Tadeusz Płoski - Chaplain of the Polish Army
64. Agnieszka Pogródka-Węcławek - Government Protection Bureau officer
65. Włodzimierz Potasiński – Polish Special Forces Commander
66. Andrzej Przewoźnik – Secretary of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites
67. Krzysztof Putra – Deputy Speaker of the Polish Sejm
68. Father Ryszard Rumianek – Chancellor of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University
69. Arkadiusz Rybicki - Polish Sejm deputy
70. Andrzej Sariusz-Skąpski – Head of the Association of Katyń Families
71. Wojciech Seweryn - representative of the Association of Katyń Families
72. Sławomir Skrzypek – Head of the National Bank of Poland
73. Leszek Solski - representative of the Association of Katyń Families
74. Władysław Stasiak – Head of the Chancellery of the Polish President
75. Jacek Surówka - Government Protection Bureau officer
76. Aleksander Szczygło – Head of the National Security Bureau
77. Jerzy Szmajdziński – Deputy Speaker of the Polish Sejm
78. Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz – Polish Sejm deputy
79. Izabela Tomaszewska – Chancellery of the Polish President
80. Marek Uleryk - Government Protection Bureau officer
81. Anna Walentynowicz – founder of the Free Trade Unions
82. Teresa Walewska-Przyjałkowska - Golgota Wschodu Foundation
83. Zbigniew Wassermann - Polish Sejm deputy
84. Wiesław Woda - Polish Sejm deputy
85. Edward Wojtas - Polish Sejm deputy
86. Paweł Wypych – Secretary of State of the Chancellery of the Polish President
87. Stanisław Zając – Polish senator
88. Janusz Zakrzeński – prominent Polish actor
89. Gabriela Zych - representative of the Association of Katyń Families
Crew members:
90. Arkadiusz Protasiuk - Flight Captain
91. Robert Grzywna – Second Pilot
92. Andrzej Michalak – Fligh Technician
93. Artur Ziętek - Navigator
94. Natalia Januszko – Flight Attendant
95. Barbara Maciejczyk – Flight Attendant
96. Justyna Moniuszko - Flight Attendant
Dr. Nowaczyk Presentation
Part 1: Smolensk Crash Explained
Part 2: Inconsistencies in Reports
Part 3: Emerging Crash Causes
What was the "Katyn Massacre"?
Arthur Bliss Lane (16 June 1894--12 August 1956) was the United States Ambassador to Poland (1944--1947). While in Poland, Lane was so disappointed that he resigned his post (on February 24, 1947) and wrote the book which detailed what he considered to be the failure of the United States and Britain to keep their promise that the Poles would have a free election after the war. In that book he described what he considered betrayal of Poland by the Western Allies, hence the title, "I Saw Poland Betrayed". The book was translated into Polish and published in this version in the United States, and later by an underground publishing house in Poland in the 1980s.
"Crime Without Punishment"
"[...] But why would Russia wish to sabotage the plane? It was merely a ceremonial visit by the Polish elite to commemorate and mourn the 1940 murder of 22,000 Polish officers and other officials in the Katyn Forest, Russia, by the NKVD – the Soviet secret police. These officers were defenseless prisoners of war (POW), slaughtered in violation of the Geneva Convention. Despite blaming Germany for the massacre, Russia hurriedly acknowledged the event in 1989, and then swept the atrocity out of the history books much the way they airbrush disfavored officials out of photos. The April 2010 Smolensk trip would have reminded the world that the Russians had murdered thousands, and lied about it for decades. It became a problem for the Russians on how to make the planned Smolensk ceremony disappear…quickly.
Of course, part of this is that any major accident wiping out a good measure of a nation's leadership is invariably assured of some investigation by disinterested parties - except in this case, where the Russian government had the "boots on the ground" and the Polish government soon to be under the administration of Donald Tusk and Bronisław Komorowski, had to choose between consolidation of power and some favorable trade agreements with Russia, or a "delicate" situation ...
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