http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1264964/BREAKING-NEWS-Plane-carrying-Polish-president-crashes-Russia.html

Wow. President and army chief dead. Several other senior govt. officials are believed dead. The plane was carrying 80+

I saw that on BBC this morning. That's a terrible blow. I wonder why they'd have so many important officials on one flight.

Apparently they cut costs because of a national recession. Of all the things to cut costs on, this bit of security is vital to the country. How much money will be lost because of this? Seems like an a worthy investment to protect your leadership, especially during a recession.

Hindsight is always 20/20 guys.

I know large amount of fog was involved in the crash, but I also heard that the Polish officials ride on aged 20+ year old Soviet-made aircrafts.

Poor guy.

Well actually we are the only country in Europe witch didn't have a recession. And no it had nothing to do with cutting costs.

They were all going to Katyń. A place in Russia where 20+ thousand officers were killed by soviet special forces during WWII. It's an anniversary today.

That doesn't make any sense, though. Flying officials in different planes is security 101. Someone who claims to be Polish told me they did have a recession...

The Russians did it. Look for the coming invasion.

On the "bright" side, their president doesn't do much. The prime minister is the head of government.

Wow, that's terrible. I hope they get through it smoothly.

Well they could be confusing a slow down with a recession.

http://m.onet.pl/_m/da2d88a685c2e07cd26805888ce4333a,5,1.jpg

Well to be fair I think you're right. To many important people on that plane. They should have taken two. I'm pretty sure some heads will roll. But for now no one relay knows any details. We'll have to wait a week or two.

It's funny because these people were all over the news like every day. I liked some of them, hated some. But it is a huge loss none the less.

Flying to a memorial for dead Poles, the president of Poland dies.
If we have a god he's an *******.

Poland didn't have enough of an ecomony to have a recession. That's why half the country moved to other places in europe a few years ago.

But yeah, sad.

Sorry but what you just said is stupid.

Poland's economy is twice as big as Belarus and Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia or Romania. That didn't stop those country's from falling very low last year. (-8 to -20 GDP). I don't know what world you live in but a country witch is a part of the EU has to have a large economy otherwise it would not be in the EU.

We made the right choices during the crisis. Better than most other country's.

And people moving has nothing to do with the size or the scale of an economy. It's about how much they earn. It's more of a currency issue. When Euro was worth about 4.5 złotych (currency in Poland) people were leaving massively because it's better to earn 1500 Euro than 1500 złotych right?

he was making a joke....

Ohh... Sorry than my bad

Just that everything we see all day is so ****ing sad. Names of the victims, speeches and so on. I wouldn't see a joke if it hit me in the face

So a yeah. I'm gonna go to sleep now.

I was just making a little joke about the gigantic number of polish immigrants.

Baconfish is actually very racist against people of Eastern European origin. Just try to ignore him.

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Pfft, it's not like I'm Stat or something.

Nah, stat only hates Jews and blacks.

Jokes aside, this has to be a huge national tragedy. Damn shame it had to happen.

Didn't Poland's president have an identical twin brother?