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by jacekm 2220 days ago
There was a little bit more to it. April 10th is an anniversary of Polish presidential plane crash that occurred 10 years ago in which many polish statespeople have perished (including Jarosław's twin brother). Since that crash Jarosław and his party have used this tragedy for their political gains (mainly by creating conspiracy theories around the crash and promising to solve them).

Jarosław's visit to the cemetery (together with members of the government) was another publicity stunt. If they just wanted to pay the respects to the deceased probably no one would care and they could easily get away with minor restriction violation. Instead they made it an official visit and broadcasted it in government-controlled TV.
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tlear 2220 days ago
https://news.sky.com/story/smolensk-crash-explosions-on-boar...

Of all the air crashes in history this got to be the most “convenient” does not mean it was a bomb but damn you got to wonder just how many corks of champagne got popped at Putin’s house when it happened.

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p_l 2220 days ago
At the time it was actually inconvenient, as he needed some of those people live at a meeting a month later.

Having observed from pretty short range how the events unfolded after that, they did jump on the insanity when polish government turned out to be weak against it. That would be when the corks got popped, IMO.

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