Polish president killed in plane crash

We talked briefly about Poland's recent (2004) entry into the European Union in class on Friday. Poland was a communist country until the late 1980s and has been a capitalist economy ever since. A plane crash early Saturday morning killed the president of Poland, his wife, and several top military and government officials. The plane was in route to Russia to ease some of the tension between the two countries. This catastrophe makes me wonder if Poland will be able to continue their climb to a successful market economy. They have been successful thus far and have weathered the current crisis better than most of the other European countries. Will having to replace a huge part of their government cause them to slide back into the old ways of heavy government involvement or will they be able to stay on the path to a thriving capitalist society?