… comments, in the Princeton University paper, on the Smolensk crash:
Peter Bogucki, the associate dean for undergraduate affairs at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, expressed faith in Polish democracy and said he believes that the country’s transition to a new president will be smooth.
“They have normal democratic institutions that have orderly plans of succession and clear ways of sorting things out,” he said, contrasting the succession process to the intrigues that marked transfers of power in the Soviet Union. “I think they’ll realize some form of national resiliency that they might not have known that they had.”
Bogucki has done archaeological research in Poland and is of Polish descent. His cousin’s father-in-law was on the plane.