Letter from Poland

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Documentary on the crash of the Polish government aircraft on April 10, 2010 near the Russian Smolensk airport. The plane was on its way to attend ceremonies commemorating one of the greatest traumas in Polish history: the killings at Katyn. There, in 1940, over 20,000 Poles were killed by the Russian secret service. A more dramatic concurrence of circumstances is hardly imaginable. Poland was overcome with grief, but also with fear and suspicion towards the still threatening and dangerous bear: Russia. The catastrophe of Smolensk demonstrates the paper-thin sense of security of the Poles, despite being embedded in "greater Europe".

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