Katyn does not happen twice
EN[...] From the mystical perspective we may easily suspect destiny—an unavoidable death in the land of the 1940 massacre of Katyn. In this sense the Polish elite united with the victims existentially and commemorated them by losing own lives. It is as if the seventy year old ghost(s) of the Katyn massacre had taken down the plane and crashed it. Just as the characters die in Shakespeare’s Hamlet because the ghost of Hamlet’s father haunts the castle of Kronborg at Elsinore, similarly the ghost of the past of Katyn brought death to the passengers of the presidential plane. That plane was traveling for the anniversary commemoration of this tragic event. But in Hamlet characters die because of revenge and a battle for power. In the case of Katyn 2010, the victims die merely in their nationalist attempt to commemorate Katyn of 1940. Political insinuation of Russian conspiracy was apparent while watching the exclusive and almost royal funeral of the President in Krakow—the solemnity created out of respect for the President and the First Lady implied a martyr status for the glory of Poland. [...].
