By Piotr Dutkiewicz, Professor, Director...
these matters to build some basic trust and to develop a Polish-Russian political and security agenda for the 21st century and draft a report on a “Road Map Toward Russo-Polish Reconciliation” to be presented to the public in both countries.Let us be silent over the tombs, but also let us think about how to turn this tragedy into a new chapter of our relations. Let us make life triumph over death. Big tragedies can certainly be unifying, but they can also be divisive; indeed, they are never ambivalent. If our two nations cannot forgive each other at a moment like this, when will they ever be able to forgive each other? We cannot allow ourselves to waste this chance out of respect for those who perished in Katyn seventy years ago, for those who died in Smolensk last Saturday, but also for all Russians and Poles . We hope that this great loss of life will begin a process of genuine reconciliation. So far Russians and Poles were living separately – it is
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