Jarosław Kaczyński, speaking at Thursday's press conference about Antoni Macierewicz's actions regarding the Smolensk disaster, referred to Zbigniew Brzeziński, former adviser to US President Jimmy Carter. In the evening, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski, recalled what the political scientist said about the theories regarding the “Smolensk attack”. He included a fragment of Brzeziński's archival statement, from a conversation with Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska, a reporter of “Fakty” TVN.
During Thursday's press conference, the president PIS Jarosław Kaczyński was asked by TVN24 reporter Radomir Wit to comment on the conclusions of the report of the team investigating the work of the Smolensk subcommittee, headed by Antoni Macierewicz. On Friday, the deputy head of the Ministry of National Defense Cezary Tomczyk announced that the report on the Smolensk subcommittee along with 41 notifications regarding, among others, Antoni Macierewicz and Mariusz Błaszczak were submitted to the National Prosecutor's Office.
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Kaczyński refers to Zbigniew Brzeziński
Kaczyński was asked whether any consequences would be brought against Macierewicz, vice-president of Law and Justice, in connection with the many irregularities indicated in the experts' report. – I will refer here to the statement of the late Zbigniew Brzeziński, who claimed that if the Chinese killed President of the United Stateshowever United States to hide the truth about it. I think you are knowledgeable enough to understand the meaning of my answer, Kaczyński replied.
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Brzeziński talked about “irresponsible nonsense about the Smolensk attack”
On Thursday evening, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted an entry regarding this situation on social media Radosław Sikorski.
“Since PiS politicians invoke the authority of my mentor and friend, Prof. Zbigniew Brzeziński, regarding the Smolensk disaster, I would like to remind you what he really thought about their conspiracy theories,” he wrote.
He also included a fragment of an archived conversation between Zbigniew Brzeziński and the reporter of “Fakty” TVN, Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska.
– This constant irresponsible nonsense about some Smolensk attack, without indicating who is responsible for this attack, but suggesting that it is probably both the Polish government and maybe the Soviets, and maybe both, is something so disgusting and so so harmful that I hope that more responsible people in the government opposition will approach it differently – said the political scientist at the time.
– Because it is a terribly nasty job, apparently done by a few people suffering from some psychological difficulties, which may be understandable from a human point of view, but for which there is no place in political life and that is what we need to consider. Because you cannot destroy what is democracy like this, and democracy is the ability to cooperate and compete, said Brzeziński, who died in 2017.
Zbigniew Brzeziński
Zbigniew Brzeziński was the US national security adviser during the term of office of Democratic President Jimmy Carter, in 1977-1981.
After leaving the government in 1981, Brzeziński remained an influential expert on US foreign policy. He was particularly involved in matters of policy towards the USSR and the Eastern Bloc. The professor strongly supported Poland's admission to NATOcooperating in this field with the American Polish community.
Although he spent most of his life overseas, he was a patriot of two homelands – not only the United States, but also Poland. Brzeziński died in May 2017 at the age of 89.
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