General Sikorski, who died in when his plane crashed into the sea during WW2, has found to have probably not been murdered prior to the crash. At least there's no evidence of murder after all these years.
Personally, I don't think the plane crash was an accident, and that it's most likely that the Soviets were involved in some way. After all, an alliance with the West was at stake, the Soviets were being hammered by the Germans and there was this nasty business of thousands of Polish officers turning up dead in previously Soviet controlled forests, looking like they had been executed. And Gen. Sikorski was pressing for an independent investigation.
However, if evidence of Soviet sabotage does show up, expect the shit to hit the fan in regards to Polish-Russian relations.
Related Link: No sign Poland's WWII PM was killed before crash ~ AP
Personally, I don't think the plane crash was an accident, and that it's most likely that the Soviets were involved in some way. After all, an alliance with the West was at stake, the Soviets were being hammered by the Germans and there was this nasty business of thousands of Polish officers turning up dead in previously Soviet controlled forests, looking like they had been executed. And Gen. Sikorski was pressing for an independent investigation.
However, if evidence of Soviet sabotage does show up, expect the shit to hit the fan in regards to Polish-Russian relations.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Forensic tests have turned up no evidence that Poland's exiled World War II leader was murdered before his plane crashed into the sea, according to experts probing a death that spawned decades of conspiracy theories.
Investigators said Thursday that it remains possible that the plane carrying Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski — the leader of occupied Poland's government in exile — was sabotaged before it plunged into the sea 16 seconds after taking off from a British military base in Gibraltar on July 4, 1943.
Polish authorities exhumed Sikorski's body in November in an attempt to determine whether he died in an accident or was murdered.
Speaking on behalf of a team of court medical experts, Tomasz Konopka said Sikorski died from multiple organ trauma. Sikorski suffered several broken ribs, broken bones in his arms and legs, a damaged spine and eye-socket, among others.
Related Link: No sign Poland's WWII PM was killed before crash ~ AP
Lucyna, I'd have thought that sabotage of the aircraft would be far more likely? Very difficult to find after all this time, though.
ReplyDeleteSikorski's death was just too convenient for too many people, it seems to me.
Yes, sabotage of the aircraft would be much more likely. I remember reading somewhere that the British inquiry found Sikorski's plane crashed because the controls jammed, without discovering what caused them to jam. Apparently a Soviet aircraft was at the airport in Gibraltar at the same time as Sikorski's - purely a coincidence, I'm sure...
ReplyDeleteYeah, I agree, KG.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading that Britain's wartime files that might shed light on what is known there have been sealed for another 50 years once the first 50 years were up. Eventually Poland is going to be asking for those files. Or maybe they've already been asked for.
PM, I typed out my comment a few hours ago and only just now hit publish. I read the same thing, however, the files on the event being potentially sealed might mean that more went on that was let on at the time, and that can even be let on now.
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