Как авиакатастрофа помогла Польше стать нормальной

Очень любопытная, на мой взгляд, статья из журнала “Newsweek”. Статья на английском.

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At one point, the Kaczynskis almost paralyzed the Union with their macabre demand that Polish World War II dead should be included in the population numbers that determine the country's weight in EU votes and institutions. Mired in corruption, political parties exploited deep social and economic fissures between disgruntled communist-era apparatchiks, a poor and backward countryside that has not yet arrived in the modern economy, and the middle-class, largely urban winners of the post-1989 transition to capitalism. The Kaczynskis personified a paranoid style of Polish politics that lashed out at foreigners and minorities, and saw the country endangered by plots and conspiracies.

Today, most of that seems forgotten. Moderate Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, have in just two years reoriented Poland toward the EU, made peace with Russia, and loosened its historically close relations with the United States. That Poland would see its future tied tightly to the EU is less an ideological choice than a recognition of reality, much of it defined by economic and commercial ties…

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