Teby-Smoleńsk-Warszawa [Thebes-Smoleńsk-Warsaw].

Thus, in Karlowicz's view, the air catastrophe at Smole'nsk revealed that the Polish state, as ruled by the Civic Platform party with Tusk at its head, was like the eighteenth-century Russian "Potyomkin villages" - unable to respond, nonexistent in fact. Karlowicz compares the mob that tried to ridicule those who stood there in prayer to the mob in Zygmunt Krasi'nski's I The Undivine Comedy. i The comparison is right on target: revolutionary mobs destroy but are unable to build. Karlowicz argues that for most of its written history Poland regarded itself, and was regarded by others, as a country whose roots go back to Latin Rome. [Extracted from the article]