Posted on 04/10/2010 1:20:42 PM PDT by smoothsailing
MEDIA RELEASE
April 10, 2010
RUSSELL FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE
CONTACT: Steve Clark
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RUSSELL COMMENTS ON POLISH TRAGEDY
(JOHNSTOWN, PA) – Kasia and I would like to extend our deepest sympathies and prayers to the people of Poland on the tragic loss of so many of their national leaders in today’s plane crash. It is yet another devastating loss to a country that has sacrificed so much in the name of freedom. President Kaczynski along with several members of his Cabinet and their families were on their way to the 70th Anniversary commemoration of the murder of 22,000 Polish Officers and Cadets in the Katyn Forest by Stalin’s NKVD during World War II. Their loss today highlights the sacrifices of so many Poles which made the Allied victory in World War II possible.
For many Poles, today’s plane crash is too reminiscent of the plane crash which killed the ardent anti-communist Prime Minister- in-exile, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, near Gibraltar in 1943. I call upon President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to open all aspects of the crash investigation to the world. They can prove their transparency in this investigation, by opening the KGB’s archives on the execution of the Polish Officers and Cadets at Katyn. So long as Russia refuses to open the archives on Katyn, their transparency and truthfulness in the investigation of today’s plane crash shall remain in question.
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