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"What Ever Became of Solidarity?"
'' America'' magazine, January 16, 2006. Retrieved October 20, 2011. He said, "We split away the history of our recent past with ''a thick line''. We will be responsible only for what we have done to help extract Poland from her current predicament, from now on". (''Przeszłość odkreślamy grubą linią. Odpowiadać będziemy jedynie za to, co uczyniliśmy, by wydobyć Polskę z obecnego stanu załamania.'')
In more recent years, his intentions were considered by many people, and his ''gruba kreska'' is often understood as a policy of nonpunishment for crimes committed by the communist regime of pre-1989 Poland.
Daniela Ivanova
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Polish
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: gruba kreska, ''thick stroke'', or gruba linia, ''thick line'') was the term used by prime minister
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of Poland
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, Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Tadeusz Mazowiecki (; 18 April 1927 – 28 October 2013) was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and Christian-democratic politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime min ...
, in his first parliamentary speech in Sejm
The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland ( Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland.
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, in 1989.Gerald J. Beyer"What Ever Became of Solidarity?"
'' America'' magazine, January 16, 2006. Retrieved October 20, 2011. He said, "We split away the history of our recent past with ''a thick line''. We will be responsible only for what we have done to help extract Poland from her current predicament, from now on". (''Przeszłość odkreślamy grubą linią. Odpowiadać będziemy jedynie za to, co uczyniliśmy, by wydobyć Polskę z obecnego stanu załamania.'')
In more recent years, his intentions were considered by many people, and his ''gruba kreska'' is often understood as a policy of nonpunishment for crimes committed by the communist regime of pre-1989 Poland.
Daniela IvanovaTadeusz Mazowiecki
See also
* Polish Round Table Agreement * Lustration in Poland * VergangenheitsbewältigungNotes and references
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