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Eugeniusz Smolar (born December 31, 1945) is a Polish
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and member of the opposition movement during the
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. He is the brother of Aleksander Smolar who is the head of the Stefan Batory Foundation in
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, established in 1988 by American financier and philanthropist
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. He is son of prominent communist activist Grzegorz Smolar.


Biography

Under socialist Poland Smolar was a member of the opposition movement. He was imprisoned during his university studies in 1968 and 1969 for participating in student demonstrations protesting the
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invasion of
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. In 1970, Smolar emigrated from Poland to Sweden and was involved in creating and publishing a political quarterly, '' Aneks''. He was involved in organizing aid for the Polish opposition and the
Solidarity (Polish trade union) Solidarity (, ), full name Independent Self-Governing Trade Union "Solidarity" ( , abbreviated ''NSZZ „Solidarność”''), is a Polish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland. Subsequently, it was the firs ...
movement. He later became a journalist for the
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and was the director of the
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between 1988 and 1997. After returning to Poland in 1997 he became a member of the board of
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. Between 2005 and 2009 he was the President of the Centre of International Relations in Warsaw. He is also a member of the editorial board of New Eastern Europe.Eugeniusz Smolar


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Biography in Encyklopedia Solidarnosci
Polish journalists Polish radio journalists 1945 births Living people {{Poland-journalist-stub