Antoni Macierewicz
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Antoni Macierewicz is a Polish politician and the former Minister of National Defence. He previously served as the Minister of Internal Affairs, Head of the Military Counterintelligence Service, and M
Stanisław Lewek (second from left), the physician who enabled Macierewicz’s 1982 escape from incarceration
Macierewicz at World Youth Day 2016 in Kraków
Secretary of Defense James Mattis talks with Antoni Macierewicz, Poland's defense minister, prior to a meeting at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, 29 June 2017
Smolensk air disaster
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On 10 April 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft operating as Polish Air Force Flight PLF 101, crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board. Among the victims were the presiden
Wreckage of the aircraft
101, the aircraft involved, pictured two days before the accident
Russian servicemen, accompanied by a policeman, twist bulbs into the approach lights of Smolensk North Airport's runway, hours after the crash of the Tu-154
101 landing at Prague Airport less than two days before the accident