With an estimated 34,000 people expected to attend the ceremony on Sunday for Józef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children who were shot on March 24, 1944, this will be the first time that an entire family will be beatified together.
Andrzej Duda, Poland's president, said on Tuesday that the heroism of Polish soldiers in the country's 1920 victory over the Red Army in the Battle of Warsaw changed the course of history and protected the whole of Europe from the Bolsheviks.
Jarosław Kaczyński, Poland's deputy prime minister and leader of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, has said opposition leader Donald Tusk is "the personification of evil," "pure evil."
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A government commission investigating the 2010 Smolensk air disaster which killed Poland's presidential couple has notified the prosecution about the possibility of the incident having been a planned assassination attempt on President Lech Kaczynski, the commission's head, Antoni Macierewicz, told PAP on Monday.
Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, paid homage on Easter Monday to the late presidential couple who had died in an air disaster near Smolensk, Russia, 13 years ago.
We must stand strongly in defence of Ukraine, Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, said after Monday talks with visiting Georgian counterpart Salome Zourabichvili.
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