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| rdfs:label | - Sikorski's death controversy
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| rdfs:comment | - Sikorski's death controversy revolves around the death of the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile, General Władysław Sikorski, in the 1943 B-24 crash in Gibraltar. Sikorski's Liberator II crashed in Gibraltar almost immediately after take off, with the plane's pilot being the only survivor. The catastrophe, while officially classified as an accident, has led to several that persist to this day. Said theories usually assume that the crash was a result of an assassination attempt, which has variously been blamed on the Soviets, British or even a dissenting Polish faction. The incident is still described by some historians as mysterious, and since 2008 it is an under investigation by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance, ongoing a
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| abstract | - Sikorski's death controversy revolves around the death of the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile, General Władysław Sikorski, in the 1943 B-24 crash in Gibraltar. Sikorski's Liberator II crashed in Gibraltar almost immediately after take off, with the plane's pilot being the only survivor. The catastrophe, while officially classified as an accident, has led to several that persist to this day. Said theories usually assume that the crash was a result of an assassination attempt, which has variously been blamed on the Soviets, British or even a dissenting Polish faction. The incident is still described by some historians as mysterious, and since 2008 it is an under investigation by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance, ongoing as of July 2013.
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