President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and the First Lady Maria Kaczyńska are to be buried in Krakow.

Today on Sunday 18th of April we join Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria Kaczyńska in their last trip. This day marks end of a week of national mourn. The couple died Saturday, the 11th of April 2010, in a tragic plane crash in Russia near a town of Smolensk.

Alongside presidential couple 94 others died – amongst them leaders of polish political scene, head of military, Ryszard Kaczorowski – polish president during communistic times and many others. They had planned to attend the 70th anniversary of the 1940 Katyn massacre.

To all who may not know that tragic events – Katyn is a small town in Russia in which Soviet secret police killed some 22,000 Polish prisoners of war – intelligentsia and officers of polish army taken prisoners. Direct order from Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin and Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria – ended their lives. There were no trials and most of them died from a single shot in the back of their head. During communistic times official propaganda shouted that Katyn’s massacre was done by Germans. Until this day Russian government in not admitting Russia being responsible for this tragic events.

Poland’s late president Lech Kaczynski and the First Lady are to be buried in Krakow in Wawel Cathedral alongside the nation’s most revered kings and generals. They will be laid in a crypt next to the tomb of Marshall Jozef Pilsudski. Marshall Pilsudski is a giant of modern Polish history figure. He is widely considered to have secured Poland’s independence in 1918, after more than a century of partition by Russia and Germany. He also is credited with defeating the Bolshevik Red Army.

More than 1 million people are expected to join the funeral so the city of Krakow is bound to be totally blocked. Amongst distinguished guests we expect top world’s politicians to join the funeral conduct – President Barack Obama, President Dmitry Medvedev, Chancellor Angela Merkel and many others.