Chicago Adult Entertainment: Polish president shaped by WWII

Also killed in the crash of a government Tu-154 airliner were his wife, Maria, a philosopher, as well as senior political and military officials. They were on their way to Katyn, a village where thousands of army officers and members of the Polish intelligentsia were executed in 1940 by Red Army troops, as the Soviets joined forces with Nazi Germany.
Kaczynski’s populist, right-wing beliefs commended him to many Poles, particularly the large Catholic population. It was an enthusiasm not universally shared on the world stage. Kaczynski and his twin brother Jaroslaw – who served for a time as his prime minister – urged former US president George W. Bush to install anti-missile missiles in Poland and pursued what some saw as a vendetta against former communists.
They campaigned vociferously against homosexuality, prostitution and abortion, and capitalised on the Polish mistrust of neighbours Russia and Germany, who in turn referred to the Kaczynski twins as ”the Polish potatoes”. According to one analyst, ”(the Kaczynskis) see the Germans as untrustworthy pigs and the Russians as worse”.

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