Poland’s Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski (pictured right) wondered yesterday if leader of the Law and Justice party Jarosław Kaczyński “was on drugs” after he sent a letter to ambassadors warning of “Russian imperialism”.
Sikorski said that opposition parties were always in a position where they could go further than the government in their statements but questioned whether Jarosław Kaczyński “was on pills or not this time”.
In the letter sent by the leader of the Law and Justice party this week to ambassadors and MEPs, Kaczynski said the European Union and the United States should oppose Russia extending its economic and political zone of influence.
Washington and Russia should also give greater assistance to countries that want to free themselves from the Russian sphere of influence, Kaczynski said.
Sikorski’s comment is presumably linked to Kaczynski admission that he was talking tranquilisers during the recent presidential election campaign following the death of his twin brother, Lech.
Kaczynski wants monuments everywhere
Meanwhile, head of Law and Justice, Jaroslaw Kaczynski has given an all-encompassing interview with the catholic ultra-conservative Radio Maryja in which he promotes the idea of commemorating the Smolensk catastrophe across Poland.
“I believe that it will happen,” Jaroslaw Kaczynski said in the interview, comparing future memorials of the Smolensk crash to those that were gradually erected after the death of Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko, known as the Solidarity priest and murdered by communist police in the 1980s.
“We should commemorate [the Smolensk tragedy] not just in Warsaw but throughout the whole country,” Kaczynski underlined.
Polish-Russian… relations?
The Law and Justice head condemned the government in their approach to discover the cause of the Smolensk crash of 10 April, adding criticism that the Polish side did not play a greater role in the joint Russian-Polish investigation.
“If this is a thaw [in relations between Poland and Russia] it means that the warmest relations where during the times of the [communist] Polish People’s Republic,” Kaczynski stated.
“I don’t know whether Donald Tusk would [admit to such aspirations], he would probably negate them. But the facts prove otherwise. What we have here is an enormous scandal,” the head of the opposition underlined.
Radio Maryja backs Law and Justice (and vice-versa)
Head of the catholic nationalist station, Redemptorist Father Tadeusz Rydzyk appealed to Jaroslaw Kaczynski for support, as he believes that the station is under threat from state authorities.
“I have no doubts that this group wants to destroy Radio Maryja because it doesn’t want any ‘safety valves’, is incredibly frightened of the truth and wants to tell people that white is black and black is white,” Kaczynski opined in the interview. (pg/ek/jb)