The northern town of Skorcz has honoured the late President Lech Kaczynski by erecting an obelisk in the town's Maslany Square.

The monument with a granite plaque commemorates Lech Kaczynski’s visit to Skorcz on 15 May 2009. “It’s the first monument of this kind in Poland,” said Jacek Sasin from the Presidential Chancellery.

“Lech Kaczynski always stressed that there is one Poland – it is in Warsaw, in Krakow, where he was buried, and in towns like Skorcz,” added Sasin, who received honorary citizenship of Skorcz on behalf of the late President.

Recently the initiative to erect a monument of Lech Kaczynski has become a bone of contention among citizens of Warsaw. Some Varsovians think that the late president should be honoured as a national hero, while others criticise the idea, claiming that Lech Kaczynski was harmful for the city and the country and his deeds were rather insignificant.

On 10 April Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash along with 95 other dignitaries en route to Katyn to commemorate the massacre there in 1940, when 20,000 Polish officers were killed by the NKVD. (mg/jb)

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