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Smolensk: The Continuing Mystery

Smolensk: The Continuing Mystery

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John Schindler
Apr 10, 2021
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Eleven years ago today, a Polish Air Force Tu-154 jetliner crashed short of the runway at a military airfield near Smolensk in western Russia. The fiery finish of Poland’s “Air Force One” took the lives of all 96 passengers and crew, among them the country’s president and first lady, dozens of government ministers and parliamentarians, and essentially P…

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