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You knew it was going to happen.
Post 'em here, folks. :roll:Polish president killed in plane crash: the conspiracy theorists will go crazy
Polish president Lech Kaczynski has been killed in an air crash, along with many of his country’s top brass. Read Daniel Hannan’s reaction here. One of the nastier consequences of international disasters is that conspiracy theorists rush to judgment – and I do mean rush. The fact that the president and so many of the Polish elite were on a visit to Russia will feature prominently in the fantastic stories being cooked up in cyberspace right now. And I can say with confidence that they are being cooked up, because Poland, like most East European countries, is obsessed with conspiracies. Russians, Jews, Americans, Freemasons – they will all be blamed. Some stories will be more credible than others. These explanations are so much more emotionally satisfying to traumatised people than the likely truth: that the Polish politicians – like so many politicians in less developed countries – were accustomed to risking their lives in dodgy planes.