I don’t know if the Russians did it or not but putting that much of the government on one plane pretty much justifies about two-thirds of the “Polock” jokes I’ve ever heard. And since I have lots of “Hunkie” inlaws and outlaws who seem to collect them for telling at family reunions I’ve heard a ton of them.
It was a tragedy... and it was simple pilot error. The biggest cause of aviation disasters is human inattention and neglect. It happens.
Nothing sinister, conspiratorial or criminal happened in Smolensk.
Actually I heard a report that initially the Polish government officials were going to take more than one plane to Smolensk Russia.....but that there was some kind of last minute issue that came up. I think it might have been an issue with the second plane or more planes that they would use. For the record, the plane that crashed had a “maintenance check up” with a Russian crew just a few months before the crash. In my opinion, I think they should have had their planes maintained by anybody, but the Russians.
As for you talking about supposed mistakes that Poles make to “justify” so called “Pollock” jokes against Polish people...that’s just sad. For the record these subhuman intelligence jokes against Polish people (renamed as “Polish jokes” by Hollywood and NBC-TV in the 1960’s) originated from WWII anti-Polish propaganda. Google “subhuman intelligence jokes” to see how anti-Polish jokes came about.