by FYODOR LUKYANOV
After the tragic death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski on April 10 and the circumstances surrounding the 70th anniversary of the massacre of thousands of Polish officers at Katyn, we are forced to once again look at the role that history plays in politics.
Russia’s reaction to the Polish presidential airplane crash demonstrated that simple human relations are capable of smoothing over even the thorniest historical tensions. Of course, political will is needed as well. In fact, the gradual warming of relations between Russia and Poland did not begin in recent weeks but soon after Donald Tusk became the Polish prime minister in 2007.
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