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Polish president honours ex-PM

12.09.2019 13:59
Poland's President Andrzej Duda on Thursday placed a wreath at the grave of former Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki at a cemetery in Laski near Warsaw.
Andrzej Duda places a wreath at the grave of Tadeusz Mazowiecki in Laski near Warsaw on Thursday.
Andrzej Duda places a wreath at the grave of Tadeusz Mazowiecki in Laski near Warsaw on Thursday. Photo: PAP/Tomasz Gzell

Mazowiecki, who died in 2013 at the age of 86, was Poland’s first non-communist prime minister after World War II.

He made his policy address to parliament 30 years ago, three months after Poland’s Solidarity freedom movement won a landslide victory in partially free elections.

The historic Polish elections of June 4, 1989 paved the way for the collapse of communism and democratic changes in the country and across Central and Eastern Europe.

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