Ok what did he do to piss off Putin?

[Feck]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 094096.ece

[Hermit]

In defence of Putin I must say that if he really had a hand in this crash he displays an advanced sense of irony. The polish president was on his way to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. About 22,000 of the Polish elite were killed on Stalin's order, and five year old trees were planted over the top of the mass graves to obscure the event.

[Feck]

Just spoke to a polish person about that ...Russian sense of Humour maybe ??

[Hermit]

Originally I was going to say exactly that, but in this context it seemed too macabre, even by my own standards.

The planting of the five year old trees, by the way, was meant to point the finger at the Germans in the event that the graves were discovered. Dendrochronological forensics, however, made it obvious that those trees had been imported from elsewhere.

[Don't Panic]

We are a cynical lot, my first thought on seeing that story earlier was that Russia had just decapitated the Polish Government.