This is not a good day in the world of Poland. The Polish president and some of his top officials died in a airplane crash.The crash of an aging Russian airliner ravaged the top levels of Poland's military,political and church elite Saturday, killing the polish president and and hundreds of other dignitaries as they travel to a ceremony commemorating a slaughter that has divided the two nations for seven decades.Twenty monks rang the Zygmunt bell at Krakow's Wawel Cathedral, the burial spot of Polish kings-a tolling reserved for times of profound importance or grief.The crash also shocked Russia.(Imagine that).Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said quote "On this difficult day the people of Russia stand with the people of Poland".Poland's president Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria of many years died together just as they would have wanted it.The Polish Prime Minister was not on that plane.Prime Minister Donald Tusk and some cabinet members flew from Smolensk from Warsaw. The president's twin brother, the former Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski headed to the area in a chartered plane along with party members.Vladimir Putin, Russia's Prime Minister attened the funeral and lay a reaf at the body of the Polish president.The Polish constitution says the parliament speaker announce early elections within 14 days of the president's death. The vote must be held within another 60 days.My condolences to the Polish people.
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