Poland: a tenacious nation is tested
Poland is reeling after Saturday’s plane crash that killed 96 people, including the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and many of the country’s top military, parliamentary, artistic and symbolic leaders. The group was traveling to Katyn for a 70 year remembrance of the worst massacre in WWII history.
Andrew Nagorski, vice president and director of public policy at the EastWest Institute brings us more on how the country might recover from the tragedy. Andrew spent most of his career covering Poland as the Moscow/Poland Bureau Chief for Newsweek. He gives us a glimpse of the scope the tragedy; but, he also paints a picture of a tenacious people whose young Democracy is in full recuperative mode.
The story you just read is available to read for free because thousands of listeners and readers like you generously support our nonprofit newsroom. Every day, the reporters and producers at The World are hard at work bringing you human-centered news from across the globe. But we can’t do it without you: We need your support to ensure we can continue this work for another year.
When you make a gift of $10 or more a month, we’ll invite you to a virtual behind-the-scenes tour of our newsroom to thank you for being with The World.