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Crossroads

Fri, Sep 03 2010 14:28 CET

byAleksander Nowacki - Krakow Post

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Crossroads

The battle is over the appropriate form to commemorate former president Lech Kaczyński who died in a plane crash in April.

An elderly man throws faeces at a plaque commemorating the nearly one hundred victims of the air crash that recently killed the incumbent president. Another threatens a group of demonstrators with a (mercifully inactive, as it turns out) grenade. These same demonstrators, calling themselves "Defenders of the Cross", hurl abuse at priests who have arrived to carry out an agreement between the president and the local archbishop, and vow to die rather than see it implemented. If culture wars are your thing, then Krakowskie Przedmieście, home to both Warsaw University and the Presidential Palace, is the place to be.

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