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Smolensk - One year on
9th April 2011© TVN24
The Smolensk crash still evokes controversy
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As the country prepared to mark the greatest tragedy to strike Poland since the end of the Second World War, differences that simmered for a year came to the fore.
In an unequivocal statement that made clear the painful rift lines in Polish society Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the brother of the late President Lech Kaczynski, and his Law and Justice (PiS) party announced they would boycott the official commemorations, preferring to have their own memorial rally outside the presidential palace in Warsaw. Mr Kaczynski and Law and Justice leaders will lay wreathes in memor ...
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