Writing in today's Guardian, Christian Davies writes a thesis on the conspiracy theorists that are/were thee Kaczynskis. I have never read a better developed and damning indictment of these fellows than this.
Of course Polonius and the rest will not read it, because it isn't what they want to hear, but it's all set out in black and white for the layman, exactly as it happened, from th first time Walesa crossed Jaroslaw Kaczynski by kicking him out of the presidential palace.
An excerpt - that really says it as it is.
"The Kaczyńskis' message that Poland's problems could be explained by the machinations of unseen forces resonated in a society subjected to rapid political, economic, and social upheaval, and which has a long memory of conspiracy and betrayal by Poles and foreigners alike. Offering Poles a comforting comic-book world in which true patriots do no wrong, the concept of the układ - of treacherous cooperation between the elite and foreign powers - allowed them to portray themselves as the sole heirs to Poland's heroic tradition of resistance".
Of course Polonius and the rest will not read it, because it isn't what they want to hear, but it's all set out in black and white for the layman, exactly as it happened, from th first time Walesa crossed Jaroslaw Kaczynski by kicking him out of the presidential palace.
An excerpt - that really says it as it is.
"The Kaczyńskis' message that Poland's problems could be explained by the machinations of unseen forces resonated in a society subjected to rapid political, economic, and social upheaval, and which has a long memory of conspiracy and betrayal by Poles and foreigners alike. Offering Poles a comforting comic-book world in which true patriots do no wrong, the concept of the układ - of treacherous cooperation between the elite and foreign powers - allowed them to portray themselves as the sole heirs to Poland's heroic tradition of resistance".