Kaczynski, Katyn

[Olga Meerson]

Some "argument of Slavs amongst themselves we have been re-enacting"! Shame. Let us just pray, at this moment of an unbearable tragedy. Today in our st. Nicholas Cathedral (Orthodox, in DC), the priest (Belorussian in his origins) just said a litany and a lity (litiia) for all those who perished in the crash, -- for President Kaczynski and everyone with him. No political speculation or argument can counter a horrible tragedy. Intercession can: it can be a testimony of love, a way to overcome division, i.e., something that counts with God, not with Political Scientists, pro-Russian or anti-Russian, pro-Polish or vehemently anti-Polish, or simply those who use human tragedy as a conceptual capital to forge a political theory.
On a more sober historical note, I do not feel that we, Russians (and yes, under the circumstances I do feel I am Russian, although otherwise, my identity is a bit of a problem to myself) should feel fully responsible for Stalin's horrible cynicism about the Katyn Polish officers. Stalin was no more Russian ethnically than Kaczynski, who loved Georgians, as long as they were anti-Russians. All this is a huge mess, and unless the finger-pointing stops, we will leave the world as one huge cemetery, way before we find out "who is to blame". Not only Stalin is Georgian; not only Putin is Russian, and not only Kaczynski is Polish. Let his soul rest in peace. Memory eternal to him and his co-workers who shared his fate.

Chrystus zmartwychwstał! Prawdziwie zmartwychwstał!
o.m. 

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