Marta Kaczynska; photo - PAPMarta Kaczynska, daughter of the late president Lech Kaczynski, says her father should have a monument built in his honour, as well as a second statue commemorating all 96 victims of the Smolensk air disaster.
“I say this as a daughter, and as a person who loves Poland: my father deserves his own monument for his services to the country; for his long-term, disinterested work for the Republic,” Kaczynska told the new weekly magazine Uwazam Rze [sic].
She also said that the Russian investigation into the crash last April in western Russia - which blamed pilot error for the disaster – failed to reveal the whole truth.
“Someone has blood on their hands,” she stated. “Those were not strokes of bad luck.”
On the concept of a collective monument, Kaczynska said it should be erected outside the Presidential Palace, reviving the awkward dilemmas of last year when a temporary cross became a place of pilgrimage there, until it was removed by agreement between President Komorowski and Roman Catholic church officials to the nearby St. Ann’s church.
“It should stand in the vicinity of the Presidential Palace, because that's exactly where people gathered spontaneously after 10 April,” she said.
Marta Kaczynska also revealed that on the 10th of every month, she lights a candle in her flat in tribute to the victims, or attends a nearby mass. (nh/pg)