On April 10 , 2010 , the Polish President Lech Kaczyński , his wife and another 94 people including many of his top staff members , more than a dozen members of the Parliament and leaders of the military died when the presidential plane went down about a half mile from the runway in the Russian city of Smolensk . The Polish delegation was on its way to take part in a ceremony there to commemorate the Soviet massacre of more than 20,000 members of Poland ’s elite 70 years ago
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2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash
Katyn war cemetery