Lech Kaczynski was killed, along with his wife Maria and a number of other senior Polish political, military and cultural figures, when their plane crashed as it preparing to land in western Russia. The coffin of Lech Kaczynski was returned home to a stunned nation on Sunday. Tens of thousands of peoples glumly lined the streets of Warsaw for an emotional compliment. They softly sang the national anthem and tossed flowers at the hearse.
The body of Kaczynski was arrived by plane from the Smolensk airport, where he and 95 others had been heading Saturday to honor 22,000 Polish officers killed by the Soviet secret police in 1940 in the western Soviet Union.
Lech Kaczynski was born on 18th June, 1949 in Warsaw. Kaczynski was one of twin boys who would both hold national office. He had followed his brother into the anti-government movement in the late 1970s and served as an adviser to the strike committee at the Gdansk shipyard during the August 1980 Solidarity-led protests. He had been planning to spot the 70th anniversary of the massacre of Polish officers by Soviet forces in the nearby Katyn forest.
Polish authorities had intended to fly the coffins to Krakow for the funeral at the city’s Wawel cathedral after a planned memorial service in Warsaw on Saturday.
