Calls for anti-Smolensk day

28th January 2011

Despite being taken down, the event has been a big success

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A facebook campaign aimed at getting Poles to drop the topic of Smolensk for one day has been met with both wild support and outrage.

The ‘A Day Without Smolensk’ event, which suggested making February 3 a day when the subject of the disaster was not to be discussed, received over 100,000 supporters just days after being set up.

Speaking to Rzeczpospolita, organiser Piotr Stohnij said, “I have been wondering for quite some time if the media frenzy surrounding the catastrophe will ever end I really believe that public debate needs to cool off.”

But the move has rankled a number of politicians, especially in the Law and Justice (PiS) camp. “The event resembles the type of in ...

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