Kaczynski, Katyn

[Robert Chandler]

Thank you, Olga, for these truly wise words.  I shall try to remember the
phrase 'those who use human tragedy as a conceptual capital to forge a
political theory'. 

All the best,

Robert


> 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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