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Anne Applebaum's husband is Radosław Sikorski. Anne Applebaum is a prominent journalist and historian. They have been married since June 27, 1992, and have two sons, Aleksander and Tadeusz. Sikorski is a notable Polish politician, having served in various governmental roles, including as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense in Poland. His political career and Applebaum's journalistic work often intersect, reflecting their shared interests in public service and political discourse.
Smolensk Air Disaster, 2010.
"Gaping Holes in Russia's Polish Air Crash," Diana West, Washington Examiner @ Smolensk Crash News, December 31, 2011.
What really happened in the forests at Smolensk, Russia, when a Polish aircraft carrying Poland's national leadership crashed in April 2010, killing all 96 people on board, including Poland's president and first lady?
The answers Russia presented to the world in its official 2011 crash report are wholly unsatisfactory. Indeed, the Moscow-controlled crash investigation seems to have been designed to suppress or tamper with evidence to exonerate Russia of all responsibility for an accident -- or guilt for a crime.
Like a tired rerun of an old horror movie, the Russian pattern of investigation into the 2010 Smolensk crash is the Russian pattern of investigation into the 1940 Katyn Forest Massacre.
It's hard to overstate the significance of that fateful flight by those Polish leaders, now deceased. They lost their lives trying to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Katyn, the mass murder of 22,000 Polish officers and intelligentsia killed by Stalin in 1940 to make way for a pro-Soviet, Communist Poland.
