The following letter written by Bronisław Wildstein was found on the pages of Radio Poland: “Since the Law and Justice (PiS) party came to power in Poland, and even before, Washington Post’s Anne Applebaum, the wife of [former Polish Foreign Minister] Radosław Sikorski, is manipulating the facts and even lying, promoting black propaganda against the government of Poland. I have already pointed out, that the toleration by this supposedly serious daily of a biased journalist, who purports to be an expert on Polish reality without informing [readers] about – her personal involvement in the events she is describing – is a violation of the standards, which the daily claims to honour. Lately, however, Applebaum went a step further. Her lies, with no basis in reality, about general Błasik, who was allegedly present in the Tupolev’s cockpit, urging the pilot to land saying: “Be bold, you’ll make it”, should be remembered in the annals of history as ruthless political propaganda. It i...