This year is 80. anniversary of the crime katyn and 10. anniversary of the Smolensk disaster. Due to the epidemic the corona virus in Elk did not hold traditional celebrations.

In Friday (April 10) President Tomasz Andrukiewicz laid flowers under the Monument to the Victims Katyn and Smolensk, as well as under the plaque commemorating the Church of St. Alexandra Mark The minister's office and the Member of the Sejm, who died in the plane crash.

10 anniversary of the Smolensk disaster

President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczyński is dead – this tragic one the news went around the world on April 10, 2010. 10 years ago in Smolensk crashed the presidential plane, which had 96 people on board. Poland delegation flew to celebrate the anniversary of the Katyn massacre. Plane crashed about two kilometers from the military airport in Russian Smolensk.

Among the victims were m.in: President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczyński together with his wife Maria Kaczyńska, the last president in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm Jerzy Szmajdziński, head of BBN Aleksander Szczygło, head of IPN Janusz Kurtyka, NBP Sławomir Skrzypek, Władysław Stasiak, Paweł Wypych, Chief of Staff General Franciszek Gągor, Members Przemysław Gosiewski, Zbigniew Wasserman, Grzegorz Dolniak, Ombudsman Janusz Kochanowski, Bishop Tadeusz Płoski.

80th anniversary of the Katyn Massacre

The Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Katyn Crimes is celebrated on the anniversary of the announcement germans in 1943 on the discovery of soviet mass graves of murdered officers of the Polish Army.

On April 13, 1943, it was revealed that the NKVD - People's Commissariat The USSR's Internal Affairs Committee, by decision of the soviet union's chief authorities with the On March 5, 1940, they genocidepolish officers - prisoner in Soviet captivity.

This crime is one of the most painful cards in our history you can't forget. The extent of the tragedy in which polish representatives died intellectual and cultural elites, polish army officers, police officers, officials, border protection corps officers and border guards, for many years was covered with silence.

They died because they couldn't break. Despite many months of Soviet work only a negligible percentage of detainees agreed to cooperate. Most despite the hardships of incarceration and permanent surveillance, it carried out conspiracy.

For many years Poland demanded that Russia reveal the full truth about the Katyn massacre.