Polish Leader to be Exhumed to (try to) Solve Mystery

The body of General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the leader of Poland’s government in exile from 1939 until his death in 1943, is to be exhumed for a forensic examination. Sikorski died when a plane he was on crashed just after taking off from Gibraltar, and Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance hope the study will either reject or confirm theories that he was assassinated by the Soviet government, who wished to use Poland as a sort of vassal state. This won’t be the first time Sikorski has been exhumed: after his death he was buried in Britain and only returned to Poland in 1993 after the collapse of the Soviet dominated communist government.