Mr. Kaczynski, along with his twin brother, Lech, fought alongside Lech Walesa to bring down Communism.
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He claims it was his twin brother, Lech Kaczynski — not Lech Walesa — who was the real leader of Solidarity.
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When a plane carrying his brother, Lech (then Poland's president), crashed over Russia, Mr. Kaczynski howled that Russia had assassinated Lech and that Poland's leaders were complicit.
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"I can express my personal sadness as a person who in the past definitely supported Lech Walesa and who respects Lech Walesa as a president," he added.
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This includes Lech Kaczyński (Poland), Viktor Orbán, and Vladimir Putin.
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Lech Walesa would go on to become president in 1990.
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They visited Lech, Austria, for a skiing trip in March 1994.
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Lech Walesa International Airport is about 13 miles away, in Gdansk.
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He is also survived by a brother, Lech, and five grandchildren.
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You were fighting Communist tyranny — aligned with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Lech Walesa.
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"If Lech Kaczynski were alive, he wouldn't allow this," Mr. Budka declared.
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Lech was the milder of the two, the softer tone in their duet.
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She's simply a hostage to her lech of a husband, the narrative goes. #FreeMelania.
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Many Poles, including the heroic former president Lech Walesa, interpreted that as an abandonment.
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I worked with Prime Minister Mazowiecki, President-elect Lech Walesa, and Józef Cardinal Glemp.
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"Free and democratic Poland is in danger," said Lech Walesa, the former Solidarity leader.
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One thing is for sure: Cadillac may be a lech, but he's got mad moves.
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Lech, who by chance had moved to the Gdansk region, went to work for Walesa.
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Leo Lech, the home's owner, says he is considering taking the case to the Supreme Court.
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Former Polish President Lech Walesa, a PiS critic, has suggested that nothing of substance will change.
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The leader of Poland's current ruling party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, is the twin brother of Lech Kaczynski.
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Mr. Sherman likes St. Anton, which is also connected to Lech on the same ski pass.
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Everyone on board was killed, including Lech Kaczynski, who was president of Poland at the time.
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He even beats up Littlefinger when the lech suggests he's taken a romantic interest in Sansa!
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"They proceed to destroy the house — room by room, by room, by room," Lech told the Post.
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"He hasn't had time to do anything yet," said 1983 winner -- anti-communist Polish leader Lech Walsea.
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Real members of Solidarity, including the movement's leader, Lech Walesa, appear in the film alongside fictional characters.
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A very strange thing happened at the moment that Lech learned that he had been elected president.
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"They are destroying everything I fought for," said Lech Walesa, the former Solidarity leader, in an interview.
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It's that time again: EuroBiggs arrives in Poland and would like to enjoy a Lech with you all.
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Some have been recognized alone, such as Martin Luther King Jr. in 2023 and Lech Walesa in 1983.
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Lech Kaczynski died when in a plane carrying a Polish delegation crashed approaching Smolensk Air Base in Russia.
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Lech was a temperamental moderate who fancied himself a statesman-intellectual; Jaroslaw was the wily back-room operator.
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Lech Kaczynski would later also become president, from 2005 until 2010, when he died in a plane crash.
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In Warsaw, a shipyard worker named Lech Walesa and a movement called Solidarity swept the Communist government from power.
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In 1990, Wojciech Jaruzelski, the last Communist leader of Poland, stepped down and Poland elected Lech Walesa as president.
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Only after Lech was buried and his mother had recovered did Jaroslaw Kaczynski tell her what had really happened.
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In the plane crash, Lech died along with the top ranks of the Polish military and members of Parliament.
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Lech Kurek, a 38-year-old visiting with his wife from Poland, said they had been left shell-shocked.
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Princess Diana and her sons Prince William and Prince Harry during a ski holiday in Lech, Austria, April 20113, 1991.
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We all thought of him as just a gross lech in a way that we didn't take him more seriously.
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Poland's defence minister suggests that Lech Kaczynski, a Polish president who died in a plane crash in 2010, was assassinated.
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Mr. Kaczynski played a lesser role in the movement, and his twin brother, also named Lech, a more central one.
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Then she ran to her car and called her fiancé, Thomas Rogne, a defender for the Polish club Lech Poznan.
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As a national hero in Poland and a personal mentor, Lech Walesa has always encouraged people to fight for freedom.
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Zimmermann, born in the town of Lech in Austria, won the downhill gold medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.
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PAP quoted the head of the chamber's chancellery, Lech Czapla, as saying the new members will be sworn in on Feb.
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He's a member of a strong aesthetic and political tradition (as seen in his 1990 poster for Polish leader Lech Walesa).
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Other brands on the block include Dreher in Hungary, Tyskie and Lech in Poland, Ursus in Romania and Topvar in Slovakia.
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Olszewski was also an adviser to late president Lech Kaczynski, Jaroslaw's twin brother, who died in a plane crash in 2010.
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For years, the one person who could persuade Mr. Kaczynski that he was veering off course was his twin brother, Lech.
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His films include a second collaboration with Wajda, on "Walesa: Man of Hope" (2013), about the Solidarity co-founder Lech Walesa.
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He is survived by Czech-American sculptor and wife Emilie Benes, daughter Mika, sons Mark and Ian, brother Lech and five grandchildren.
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Democracy champion and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa has said he will come to Warsaw Wednesday to defend the Supreme Court.
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The ad featured a Joseph Lech, a self-described Republican who opened the ad saying he had supported Sherwood in the past.
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Mr Kaczynski blames Mr Tusk for a plane accident in Smolensk in 2010 that killed his twin brother Lech, then Poland's president.
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LECH WALESA, the iconic leader of the Solidarity labour movement that brought down Poland's communist regime, was blessed with a lucky streak.
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Her father, a speechwriter for the Solidarity movement and its leader Lech Walesa, resettled in the United States as a political refugee.
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Henryk Jankowski, was known as "the chaplain of Solidarity" and was close to Lech Walesa, the movement leader who became Poland's president.
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Dr. Patricia Lech, a retired surgeon, underwent a successful joint replacement operation at New England Baptist Hospital in Boston in August 2017.
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Lech Walesa, former head of the Solidarity trade union that led the independence fight, spoke to a gathering in his hometown, Gdansk.
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Mr Kaczynski absurdly blames Mr Tusk for a plane crash in Smolensk in 2010 that killed his twin brother Lech, then Poland's president.
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"At the moment analysis of cases in which Lech Walesa filed a testimony related to the documents is being conducted," Janicki told Reuters.
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Speaking about post-Brexit scenarios, the resolutely pro-EU former president of Poland, Lech Walesa, said Europe must be re-built—and differently.
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Apollonia Kotero plays the woman who makes the Kid's heart beat faster; Morris Day is the zoot-suited lech who lusts after her.
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Carmody's prime was one of a number of creative protests against the indictment of DeCSS' creator Jon Lech Johansen by a Norwegian court.
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On the edge of the group there are two nearly identical young men with round faces: Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his twin brother, Lech.
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Lech Walesa, the hero of the Gdansk anti-Communist movement of the 1980s, attended the funeral, along with leaders of the European Union.
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And there were laureates whose causes were arguably advanced by the prize, like Lech Walesa of Poland and Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa.
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Dr. Lech, 58, said the letter had left the impression that her doctor would directly benefit from the donation, which was not the case.
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There, Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement overturned Communist rule and set in motion the changes that would produce a united and democratic Europe.
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Mr. Tusk was prime minister in 2010 when Lech Kaczynski, then Poland's president, died in a plane crash in Smolensk, Russia, with 95 others.
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The massacre is an enduring symbol for Poland of its suffering at Soviet hands, and president Lech Kaczynski had been flying in to commemorate it.
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The sarcophagus of Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria, buried in the crypt under the Wawel castle in Krakow, will probably be opened this month.
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After two tumultuous years, voters turned them out in favor of Civic Platform, the party's chief center-right rival, though Lech Kaczynski continued as president.
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If anything, this is a precautionary step to not allow the star to become the manipulative lech the season seems designed to let him become.
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Among them is Lech Walesa, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and former president who is credited with bringing down communism as Solidarity trade union chief.
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Jarosław served as Prime Minister from 21956 to 21945, and Lech served as President from 13 until his death, in a plane crash, in 21.
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The priests involved include the personal chaplain of Lech Walesa, the Solidarity hero, who initially refused to believe the story, but ultimately condemned the cleric.
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The crash killed many high-ranking Polish officials, including then-president Lech Kaczynski, brother of the head of the Law and Justice party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
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" Lech Walesa, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who led the Solidarity movement that toppled Communism a quarter-century ago, called the decision "difficult and courageous.
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Their conflict dates to 1990 when Walesa, soon after being elected president, dismissed Jaroslaw and his late twin brother, Lech, from positions in his office.
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The Polish government is currently dominated by Jarosław Kaczyński (whose twin brother Lech was Poland's President when he died in the Smolensk air crash in 2010).
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Among them are Prince Charles, representing Queen Elizabeth; King Abdullah II of Jordan and his wife, Queen Rania; and Lech Walesa, the former president of Poland.
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Of the two, Lech grew to be the more outgoing, public figure, while Jaroslaw was regarded as brilliant but also mercurial, largely keeping his own counsel.
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His late twin brother Lech Kaczynski, who died in a plane crash earlier that year while serving as president, would then become the "symbolic patron" of Solidarity.
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It was Reagan's support of Solidarity, the anti-bureaucratic labor union founded by Lech Walesa in 1980, that truly won early support for American Republicans in Poland.
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Lech Walesa, who led the Solidarity labor movement in the 1980s that helped topple the Communist government and who later served as Poland's president, joined the demonstrators.
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Mr. Kerski, however, said he has come under pressure to lessen the prominence given to Mr. Walesa and, instead, cast Mr. Kaczynski's brother, Lech, as Solidarity's hero.
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On November 10th, it unveiled a statue of former president Lech Kaczynski (the twin of Jaroslaw, its chairman), who died in a plane crash in Russia in 2010.
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Human rights heroes Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa and Natan Sharansky all told of how the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe sustained them in their prison cells.
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On the show, which ended its run in November 2017, the character is Trump as a lech, but only as a product of his own weakness or idiocy.
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A person who knows Kaczyński told me that, since the death of his brother, he has acted without the check on his decisions that Lech used to provide.
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Ferguson was never a true lech, but he was occasionally mildly creepy in a way that certainly reads differently, in retrospect, in the era of the #MeToo movement.
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And throughout the narrative, Law and Justice, under Mr. Kaczynski and his late twin brother, a President Lech Kaczynski, is seen as the bastion of real Polish democracy.
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Some 30 years ago, together with Lech Walesa and other Solidarity activists, I welcomed American presidents in the Gdansk shipyard to celebrate the fall of Communism in Poland.
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He has dressed in black every day for the past nine years to honor his twin brother, Lech, who died in a plane crash in Smolensk in 2010.
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Austria A favorite of the international glitterati and royalty (Princess Diana famously taught her sons to ski here), Lech am Arlberg wears its ritziness like a glittering tiara.
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"He has ID. I saw this ID. French ID." Ly, Wislocki and other club officials took in a 1-23 league defeat against Lech Poznan on Dec. 21.
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Father Jankowski gained prominence and enormous popularity in the 1980s by supporting Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement, but his image was tarnished in later years by allegations of abuse.
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To mark the eighth anniversary of President Lech Kaczyński's death in a plane crash, Polish artist Pawel Althamer brought a renegade tribute to the presidential palace in Warsaw.
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Poland&aposs President Andrzej Duda placed flowers at the Krakow graves of former president Lech Kaczynski and first lady Maria Kaczynska, who died in a plane crash in 2010.
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Kaczynski holds Tusk "morally responsible" for the death of his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski, in a plane crash in Russia in 2010, when Tusk was Poland's prime minister.
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Lech was the public face, the charismatic one with a high degree of political finesse, and Jaroslaw was the more backstage figure, persuading people and fashioning a political vision.
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The crash near Smolensk in western Russia killed the Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, as well as the central bank chief, top army commanders and several lawmakers.
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The crash near Smolensk in western Russia killed the Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, as well as the central bank chief, top army brass and several lawmakers.
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Last year she said Lech Walesa, a Nobel peace laureate and hero of the anti-communist Solidarity movement, had harmed Poland while serving as its president in the 1990s.
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In a 1995 commemorative service, Polish President Lech Wałęsa (who holds a Nobel Peace Prize) initially refused to acknowledge the Holocaust, preferring to focus on the murder of Poles.
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The hero of the Solidarity movement was Lech Walesa, the legendary union leader of the shipyard workers whose activism planted the seeds of the revolution that brought down Communism.
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Polish freedom icon Lech Walesa said Wednesday that Poland was pushing the European Union away, echoing comments made this month by French and German leaders against Warsaw's rightwing government.
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They're a funk/soul/rock group fronted by the son of Polish refugees, Lech Wierzynski, whose parents grew up listening to old American records from the 40s and 50s.
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The key figure in the process was Lech Walesa, the leader of the pro-democracy Solidarity trade union, who was later awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his struggle.
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The facility is named for Lech Kaczynski, the Polish president who died in a plane crash in Russia in 2010, a loss that hardened anti-Russian sentiment in Poland.
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When Law and Justice, the party he founded with his identical twin, Lech Kaczynski, first held power between 2005 and 2007, the courts blocked parts of their nationalist agenda.
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Kaczynski's twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski, was killed in the Smolensk crash and his sibling has said he holds Tusk's government at least partially responsible for the disaster, citing negligence.
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Those three countries had recently broken free of the Soviet bloc; their newly elected leaders, Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel and Jozsef Antall, had taken an active part in the liberation.
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One of Diana's most famous fashion looks, which has reappeared in trends today, is a large red puffer coat worn with leggings while she was on vacation in Lech, Austria.
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The papers include a handwritten agreement, signed "Lech Walesa, Bolek," to cooperate with the state security service, as well as a payment register and testimony from Communist informers concerning Mr. Walesa.
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During the cold war, Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland's Solidarity movement and eventually its president, once credited "Radio Free Europe and the Holy Father" for his country's liberation from communism.
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The crash near Smolensk in western Russia killed 96 people including Poland's president Lech Kaczynski and his wife, as well as the central bank chief, top army brass and several lawmakers.
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In 2006-07, during PiS's first stint in power, he served as prime minister, while his twin brother, Lech, who died in a plane crash in Russia in 2010, was president.
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The new commission presented its preliminary findings on the seventh anniversary of the catastrophe in western Russia, which killed President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, top army brass and several lawmakers.
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He spouts conspiracy theories that the Civic Platform government caused the death of his twin brother Lech, who was president when he died in a plane crash in 2010 in Smolensk.
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In the 2005 parliamentary elections, Law and Justice narrowly edged out Civic Platform as the largest party; soon after that, Lech Kaczynski defeated Donald Tusk of Civic Platform to become president.
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Ties have been strained since Poland's president Lech Kaczynski and 95 others died when their plane crashed at a rarely used airport near the Russian city of Smolensk in April 2010.
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"The personal file contains an envelope and in it there is a manually written commitment to collaborate with the secret service signed: Lech Walesa "Bolek"," said a spokesman for the institute.
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Just ask the thousands of Poles who marched on April 10th, the eighth anniversary of the plane crash near Smolensk, Russia, that killed Lech Kaczynski, then Poland's president, and 95 other passengers.
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Opened in 2015, it is devoted to a period of Poland's history known as "Solidarność" ("Solidarity"), commemorating the country's transition from communist rule in the 1980s under then-union leader Lech Wałęsa.
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From St. Moritz in Switzerland to Lech and Zurs in Austria, celebrities and royalty flock to Europe&aposs alpine ski resorts year after year to enjoy fresh powder away from the masses.
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There was no mention at the congress of the swirling conspiracy theories about the plane crash in Smolensk in 2010 that killed the then president, Lech Kaczynski, the current party leader's twin brother.
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Newly-publicised documents have revived claims Lech Walesa, the giant of Poland's struggle to overthrow communism, was a secret police informant in the 1970s - allegations still fuelling an old feud among postcommunist leaders.
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The institution is just blocks from the European Solidarity Center, dedicated to Solidarity, the democratic protest movement whose leader, Lech Walesa, the current government now depicts as a sellout to the Communist regime.
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More than one of the women in this novel is a monster, more than one of the men is an easily manipulated dolt or lech, and its view of mental illness is antediluvian.
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Acquisitive Japanese brewer Asahi Group is seen as being in the lead to buy the brands, which include Pilsner Urquell in the Czech Republic and Tyskie and Lech in Poland, the sources said.
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"In the files, there is an envelope, and in it there is a handwritten agreement to cooperate with the Secret Service signed 'Lech Walesa, Bolek,' " Mr. Kaminski said at a news conference on Thursday.
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Nobel prize winner Lech Walesa has reactivated his Citizens' Committee, an institution that is to control the election process in Poland ahead of string of elections this and next year, Gazeta Wyborcza daily said.
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WARSAW, Poland – Former Polish president and anti-communist leader Lech Walesa is meeting with disabled people who have been staging a sit-in at the parliament for over a month, offering them his solidarity.
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Kaczynski and his twin brother Lech, who died in a plane crash in 2010 when he was president of Poland, had been Solidarity members but fell out with Walesa in the 1990s over jobs.
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Debates over the legislation spiraled into chaos Tuesday evening when Law and Justice Party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski accused the opposition, the Modern (Nowoczesna) Party, of "murdering" his twin brother, Lech Kaczynski, Poland's former president.
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Like them, I wish Venezuelans had a Nelson Mandela, a Lech Walesa or a Vaclav Havel — leaders with impeccable democratic credentials, distant from the regime, competing in fair elections and delivering democracy, almost overnight.
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Leaders of the democratic transition, once treated as national heroes, are being investigated for collaboration with the former Communist government; not even Lech Walesa, the former president and Nobel peace laureate, has been spared.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Three German skiers were found dead overnight and a fourth is missing after they were swept away in an avalanche near the Austrian ski resort of Lech am Arlberg, police said on Sunday.
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WARSAW, Poland – Ex-Polish President Lech Walesa and several other former leaders are asking the European Union to defend the rule of law in their country under a populist government that is overhauling the judiciary.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's government-affiliated history institute said on Tuesday it is investigating allegations of perjury by Lech Walesa, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader of the Solidarity movement that helped bring down communist rule.
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Kaczynski has also built political capital around a heated conspiracy theory that has divided Poland for seven years: the 2010 plane crash that killed his identical twin brother and then-president, Lech, in Smolensk, Russia.
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Banners with black and white pictures of Adamowicz were draped over buildings as Polish politicians including former president Lech Walesa, who helped to overturn communism in Eastern Europe, joined a mass at St Mary's Basilica.
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That belief has fueled the growing battle between Mr. Kaczynski and the man widely hailed as the hero of the Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, who has been a vocal critic of the mythologizing of Smolensk.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Lech Kaczyński, the former Polish President who served until his untimely death in a 2010 plane crash, made a surprise, posthumous appearance outside the President's Palace in Warsaw yesterday.
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A grave situation Prosecutors in Poland said that they would exhume the bodies of all the uncremated victims of the plane crash in 163 in Russia that killed Lech Kaczynski, the then president, and 95 others.
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That April, his twin brother, Lech, then president, was killed with 95 others when their plane crashed in Smolensk, Russia, en route to a memorial for the Polish military elites killed in the 1940 Katyn massacre.
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Lech Walesa, the leader of the Solidarity movement that ended Communist rule in Poland, joined the fray on Sunday, vowing to lead a campaign of civil disobedience if Justice Gersdorf and other judges were forcefully removed.
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The Polish daily said Advent International, KKR, BC Partners, CVC and Mid Europa Partners are among the funds interested in buying SABMiller's local brands, which include Czech Pilsner Urquell, Polish Lech and Tyskie and Hungarian Dreher.
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The movement was considered for a Nobel Peace Prize, and Maher traveled across Europe and the United States talking about the Arab Spring and Egypt's future with the likes of Ban Ki-moon and Lech Walesa.
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The plane crash occurred while Lech was en route to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre — the mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the Soviet Secret Police in April and May 1940.
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" Still, the third source adds, "He wasn't a lech and he wasn't known as someone who would corner you or retaliate against you if you spurned him or someone who would lure you into his dressing room.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia rejected on Thursday Polish accusations that it mishandled the remains of former president Lech Kaczynski and other Polish dignitaries who died in a 1003 plane crash in Russia that killed all 96 on board.
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" The Polish minister, Antoni Macierewicz, said the 2010 crash in Smolensk, western Russia - in which 96 people were killed including president Lech Kaczynski - "was aimed at depriving Poland of the leadership who led our nation towards independence.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - President Andrzej Duda, an ally of Poland's new euroskeptic government, accused Lech Walesa on Tuesday of collaborating with the communist-era secret services, further stoking a revived debate about the former pro-democracy leader's past.
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Lech Walesa, the leader of the labor movement known as Solidarity, which helped the country break free from communist rule, was photographed casting his vote while wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the word "Konstytucja," or Constitution.
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Then, in the coming decade: The Soviets tried to rule Poland, but in the end, the people of Poland threw them out, and Lech Walesa went from a communist prison to being the president of his country.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party marked on Tuesday the end of monthly rallies commemorating the 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski, hoping to ease social tensions before a series of elections.
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None of this has swayed Mr. Kaczynski, whose first stint in power a decade ago alongside his twin brother, Lech, who was killed in a plane crash in Russia in 2010, failed to advance his nationalist agenda.
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Also dismissed was the national defense minister, Antoni Macierewicz, who built his reputation by insisting that the 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 96 others had been orchestrated and covered up by the Russians.
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Poland's shift is all the more frustrating because the Law and Order Party already had a crack at power under Mr. Kaczynski and his twin, Lech Kaczynski, 10 years earlier, only to be ousted after two tumultuous years.
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EVER since a plane carrying then-president Lech Kaczynski crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk on April 10th, 2010, killing all 96 people on board, Poland's Law and Justice party (PiS) has been consumed by conspiracy theories.
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AB InBev agreed to sell brands including Pilsner Urquell from the Czech Republic, Poland's Tyskie and Lech, Hungary's Dreher and Romania's Ursus to ease clearance from competition regulators for its $77.63 billion takeover of SABMiller, finalised in October.
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Kaczynski, 67, who holds no government post but is seen as Poland's main decision-maker, views Tusk as morally responsible for the death of his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski, in a plane crash in Russia in 2010.
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Anheuser-Busch InBev had agreed to sell the brands, which include the Czech market leader Pilsner Urquell, Poland's Tyskie and Lech and Hungary's Dreher, to help get clearance from competition regulators for its $100 billion takeover of SABMiller.
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The outgoing, hardline defense chief has been the PiS investigator into the 2010 plane crash over Russia that killed President Lech Kaczynski - the twin brother of current party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski - and dozens of other senior Polish officials.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's Lech Walesa, who shot to world fame for his role in the collapse of communism, promised on Thursday to defend himself in court against new allegations that he collaborated with the communist-era secret services.
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Led by former Gdańsk shipyard worker and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walęsa, the Solidarity movement's vision was largely shaped by lawyers, intellectuals and student activists who in the late seventies formed the Committee for the Defense of Workers.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish authorities said on Thursday they had found the remains of two other people in the coffin of former president Lech Kaczynski while investigating the plane crash in Russia that killed him and 95 others in 2010.
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At first glance, this monumental sculpture, called "Flight," by Polish artist Roman Stańczak, seems like a frank response to the 2010 Smolensk plane crash that killed Poland's then-President, Lech Kaczynski, along with 95 other government delegates on board.
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As part of Mr. Kaczynski's campaign against the European-minded heirs of Solidarity, he has even accused Mr. Tusk of being responsible for the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed his twin brother, Lech Kaczynski, then Poland's president.
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WARSAW — Lech Walesa, the former shipyard worker who helped bring about the collapse of Communism in Poland and then served as the country's president, faces new accusations that he was an informant for the secret police during the Communist era.
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It's funny that the historical scenes depicted in the park are all these "end of history" moments—the fall of the Berlin Wall, Lech Walesa's Solidarity rallies in Poland—when people thought liberal democracy and capitalism were going to reign eternal.
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In 2010, President Lech Kaczyński and several other top officials died when a plane crashed in the Russian city of Smolensk as they were traveling to the site where the Soviet army massacred Polish officers at the end of WWII.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa has urged the Catholic Church to prevent further sexual abuse of children by members of its clergy after a new documentary film showed his priest to be one of the accused.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's defense minister appeared to suggest the death of president Lech Kaczynski in a 2010 plane crash in western Russia was the result of foul play, an allegation that is likely to test already troubled relations with Moscow.
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In February the government-affiliated institution in charge of Poland's Soviet-era archives eagerly released evidence that Lech Walesa, a former president who led the Solidarity movement which brought down Communism, had worked as an informer for the secret police.
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World Briefing The government on Thursday opened a new investigation into the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed President Lech Kaczynski, with the defense minister saying that evidence pointing to Russian involvement was covered up in an earlier inquiry.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is to grant Polish officials access to the wreckage of a Polish plane that crashed in Russia in 2010, killing then Polish president Lech Kaczysnki and 95 other people on board, Russia's Investigative Committee said on Wednesday.
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But Poland's ruling party boss Jaroslaw Kaczynski is implacably opposed to Tusk, holding him "morally responsible" for the death of his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski, in a plane crash in Russia in 2010, when Tusk was Polish prime minister.
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MOSCOW/WARSAW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was tired of hearing allegations from Warsaw that a 2010 plane crash that killed then Polish President Lech Kaczynski was the result of a Russian conspiracy, drawing a sharp rebuke from Warsaw.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's government-affiliated history institute said on Tuesday it had new evidence that Lech Walesa, who led protests and strikes that shook communist rule in the 21980s, had been a paid informant for the secret police in the 21978s.
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"I am sorry that Mr. President Lech Walesa was not able at the right time to bring himself to make a gesture to Poles ... Just speak out and tell the truth," Duda told reporters from the Polish online news website wp.pl.
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WARSAW, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Poland's government-affiliated history institute said on Tuesday it had new evidence that Lech Walesa, who led protests and strikes that shook communist rule in the 1980s, had been a secret police informant in the 1970s.
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Three German skiers were killed and another is still missing, after they were buried in an avalanche near the Austrian ski resort of Lech am Arlberg over the weekend, a press officer for the western province of Vorarlberg told CNN.
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Lech Walesa, who led the Solidarity movement that ended Communist rule in Poland and then served as president from 1990 to 1995, vowed on Sunday to lead a campaign of civil disobedience if Justice Gersdorf and other judges were removed.
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It also looks at the government's reaction to the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981 as well as how Poland dealt with the 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and top government officials and military leaders.
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Over the next two months, prosecutors appointed by Poland's right-wing governing party plan to examine the remains of 83 of the 96 people who died in the crash, starting with the former president, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife, Maria.
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KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - Polish prosecutors on Monday began the exhumation of President Lech Kaczynski, who died in a plane crash in Russia in 2010, to examine his remains as part of an investigation into the tragedy likely to deepen political divisions in Poland.
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The party has purged the public administration, made it illegal to accuse the "Polish nation" of complicity in the Holocaust, and peddled conspiracy theories about the aeroplane crash in 2010 which killed then-president Lech Kaczynski and 95 others outside Smolensk, in Russia.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's new government relaunched an inquiry on Thursday into the death of President Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash in Russia in 2010, a move likely to strain Warsaw's relations with its former overlord, already fragile over the Ukraine crisis.
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Ironically, when Congress voted Solidarity the second million dollars – fearing that the funds would cause increased conflict with the communist, Russian-backed government of Poland – the U.S. Department of State tried to convince Solidarity's leader, Lech Walesa, not to take the money.
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In 2010, a plane carrying 96 members of the Polish elite set off for Russia to take part in a memorial service at the Katyn site — and crashed outside Smolensk, killing everyone on board, including President Lech Kaczynski and the entire army command.
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This struggle has taken on many forms: discrediting the Round Table Agreement of 1989, accusing Lech Walesa of working as a Communist agent, attempting to overhaul a new World War II museum in Gdansk, building museums and staffing historical institutes with ideological allies.
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Dressed in his trademark dark suit he wears to commemorate his twin brother Lech who died as Polish president in a plane crash over Russia in 2010, Kaczynski had kissed Warchol's hand in an old-fashioned gesture practiced by many men in Poland.
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The crash in thick fog near the Russian city of Smolensk shook Poland to the core: the 96 dead included top army brass, the central bank chief and lawmakers from across the political spectrum, as well as Lech Kaczynski, a PiS founder.
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Former Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his brother, former Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, often spoke of their father's role in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against Nazi rule, which biographers tend to describe — always in positive terms — as formative for how they led Poland.
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The party's more than 150,000 activists take inspiration from successful models of non-violent protest abroad such as those in the 1980s by then-trade union leader Lech Walesa against communism in Poland and opposition in Chile to the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's Lech Walesa, who led protests and strikes that shook communist rule in the 1980s, has thrown his authority behind moves to persuade the European Union to do more to stop reforms in the country which critics say threaten the rule of law.
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Kaczynski, 67, has said Tusk should not be reappointed to chair summits of EU leaders because he may face charges in Poland related to a 2010 plane crash that killed the country's then president - Kaczynski's twin brother Lech - or other accusations about a Ponzi scheme.
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"He was the only one of the world leaders at the time (who) did so much to overcome communism and help Poland," said Lech Walesa, the former head of Poland's Solidarity trade union who led protests and strikes that shook communist rule in the 1980s.
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Many top political figures in Poland, including Nobel Peace Prize winner and former leaders of the Solidarity movement Lech Walesa have appealed to the Commission to ask the European Court of Justice, the EU's highest court, to issue an injunction against the Supreme Court reform.
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Toward the end of the exhibition hangs a photograph of Lech Walesa, the electrician and Solidarity co-founder who later served as Poland's first post-communist president, and his fellow Solidarity leaders at the end of a strike at the Lenin Shipyard in 1988.
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He was never a major figure in the party, first acting as a legal adviser, then as a deputy minister in the Justice Ministry and as a legal aide to Mr. Kaczynski's twin brother, former President Lech Kaczynski, who died in a 2010 plane crash.
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A former Solidarity activist himself, Mr. Kaczynski is a reclusive politician whose twin brother, Lech, then president of Poland, was killed in 2010 when the government plane carrying him, his wife and dozens of senior officials crashed in the forest of Smolensk, in Russia.
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During the great strike in the shipyards in Gdansk, Poland, when the labor movement Solidarity, led by the electrician Lech Walesa, had just been formed and was gaining support, the band Azra, from Zagreb, performed a song called "Poland in My Heart" all around Yugoslavia.
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It's still possible Trump's visit here won't be the lovefest the Polish government is betting on: Trump may praise the former Polish President Lech Wałęsa, a harsh critic of the Law and Justice party's governing style, who may be seated in the audience Thursday.
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"Trump's behavior suggests to me that he is not only a lech (and likely worse) with women, but a man who needs to boast about it to other men," Adelle Waldman, whose first novel The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P skewered ostensibly feminist literary men, wrote me.
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Mr Wajda's "Man of Iron", about the Gdansk shipyard strike of 1980, had just won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and he was increasingly caught up in the Solidarity movement; 22 years later his production company made a biopic of his close friend Lech Walesa, its founder.
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Poland's current government under the Law and Justice (PiS) party, led by Lech Kaczynski's twin brother Jaroslaw, took direct control of the prosecutor's office and moved to re-examine the Smolensk crash after taking power in late 2015, saying the previous investigation was not conducted properly.
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Poland's current government under the Law and Justice (PiS) party, led by Lech Kaczynski's twin brother Jaroslaw, took direct control of the prosecutors office and moved to re-examine the Smolensk crash after coming to power in late 2015, saying the previous investigation was not conducted properly.
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Also on the ministry's proposed agenda is the earmark of funds for the creation of a new department named after one of Solidarity's co-founders, Anna Walentynowicz, who was aboard a 2010 plane crash that killed several of Poland's leading political figures, including then-president, Lech Kaczynski.
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By day, he appeared at political rallies, campaigning in mourning clothes as a stand-in for his twin brother, Lech, who had been running for a new term as Poland's president before he died in a shocking plane crash over the Russian city of Smolensk in 2010.
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WARSAW — A Polish national archive released portions of decades-old files on Monday that indicate former President Lech Walesa, the leader of the Solidarity movement and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, was a Communist informer in the 1970s, even though Mr. Walesa has asserted that the documents are forged.
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"I need some water/something came over me/way too hot to simmer down/might as well overheat," he drones, nailing the eerie feeling; later, when he impersonates a lech asking, disingenuously, to only put "the head in," the extent to which desire correlates with self-hatred is unclear.
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But the protest turned out smaller than a crowd of 4,000 people a day earlier, disappointing Lech Walesa, a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and former president credited with bringing down Polish communism in 1989, who came from Gdansk to Warsaw to express his objection to the court changes.
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Lech Walesa, the 1983 Nobel peace laureate whose Solidarity movement led Poland's emergence from Communism, was joined by Aleksander Kwasniewski, president from 1995 to 2005, and Bronislaw Komorowski, president from 2010 until last year, in calling on Polish citizens to "defend democracy" in their letter, published by Gazeta Wyborcza.
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Shortly after assuming power, the party — led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin brother of Lech Kaczynski, the Polish president killed in the 2010 crash in Smolensk, Russia — passed laws that effectively hobbled the highest constitutional court and firmed up government control over public news media and state prosecutions.
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The first went to Lech Walesa, the heroic leader of Poland's 10-million-strong Solidarity Trade Union, in 1983; seven years later, the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, was honored for having the courage to acknowledge the moral, political and economic bankruptcy of the old regime.
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Besides Gorbachev, he offers interviews with the men (they are all men, aside from some archival footage of Margaret Thatcher) who helped end the Cold War, including Lech Wałęsa, James Baker, and George Schultz (fresh from his appearance in another recent documentary as one of several powerful old men duped by Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos).
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"He was to the ranchers of the Amazon what Cesar Chavez was to the citrus kings of California, what Lech Walesa was to the shipyard managers of Gdansk," Andrew C. Revkin, who long covered environment issues for The New York Times, wrote in "The Burning Season," his 212 book on Mr. Mendes's life and death.
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In the eastern city of Biala Podlaska, two KOD members were charged with profanation after draping the T-shirt on a statue of the late Lech Kaczynski, Poland's former president who died in a plane crash in 2010 and whose twin brother Jaroslaw is the head of Law and Justice (PiS) and Poland's de facto leader.
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Poles have been asking for U.S. troops to be stationed on its territory since Lech Walesa, the Solidarity trade union leader who became Poland's president, first made the request when he came to Washington in November 1989, just months after Poland had thrown off the Soviet yoke and retaken its place among the free countries of Europe.
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On the day of the crash, Lech Kaczynski was flying to visit a memorial in the Katyn Forest, a place haunted by history, killing grounds where more than 20,000 Poles were slaughtered by Red Army soldiers in the early days of World War II, a crime that the former Soviet Union long denied and outlawed Poles from discussing.
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Such disdain for the rule of law and basic civil rights has drawn anguished criticism not only from Mr. Rzeplinski and other Polish democrats — including Lech Walesa, the hero of Poland's anti-Communist movement in the 1980s — but also from the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
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"The birch tree log with the face of the late president Lech Kaczyński, sculpted in a piece of ebony wood with a golden aura, is a totem for the conflicted and divided tribe, the Poles," Sebastian Cichocki, chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, who was in attendance as Althamer unveiled his newest work, told Hyperallergic.
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