RUSSIA attracts conspiracy theories. Just ask the thousands of Poles who marched on April 10th, the eighth anniversary of the plane crash near Smolensk, Russia, that killed Lech Kaczynski, then Poland’s president, and 95 other passengers. As always, the annual commemoration (there are smaller monthly ones) began with mass at Warsaw’s cathedral, and ended with a speech by Mr Kaczynski’s twin brother Jaroslaw, head of the populist Law and Justice (PiS) party and Poland’s de facto leader. He promised that Poles would soon know the truth about how their president died. Mr Kaczynski and his party have long implied that Russia downed the plane on purpose.
There has never been much evidence for this. The plane fell short of the runway in heavy fog. Investigations by Russian and Polish authorities blamed the weather, poor airport maintenance and human error. Yet Mr Kaczynski and his allies hinted that it was an assassination. In recent years PiS has even alleged collusion by Donald Tusk,...Continue reading
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