Sunday, April 11, 2010

Tragedy for Poland

Unfortunately, we never know when an accident is going to occur, and even less, who is going to take the consequences of unlucky acts, but that's life, when it's time, it's time, id doesn't matter who you are or where you are.
Now, Poland has a feeling of sadness, their president, Lech kaczynski, died in a plane crash when he was traveling to Russia, to conmemorate the deaths of thousand of polish people by the secret police of Stalin, in the woods of Katyn, also in an attemp of rising the level of reconciliation between Russia and Poland.

The crash took place in the city Smolensk, they try to land because of the intense fog, but accidents happen. There was 131 people who died in the accident, including Kaczynski's wife, and members of his government. The US president, Barrack Obama, expressed his condolences, as others leaders of the world, and he said that Kaczynski was a leader who was admired in the US for promoting freedom and human dignity, also for being one of the responsibles for the rise of democracy in his country.

The world showed respect for the tragedy, for example, Kaczynski was planning to attend the great match between Real Madrid vs. Barcelona, so the people in the stadium had a minuto of silence because of the deaths occurred, and the players carried a black bracelet in memory those who suffered the consequences of the accident.

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