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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
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The Sejm has been the highest governing body of t ...
, in 1989.Gerald J. Beyer"What Ever Became of Solidarity?"
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'' 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
The Polish Round Table Talks took place in Warsaw, Poland from 6 February to 5 April 1989. The government initiated talks with the banned trade union Solidarność and other opposition groups in an attempt to defuse growing social unrest.
Histo ...
* Lustration in Poland Lustration in Poland refers to the policy of limiting the participation of former communists, and especially informants of the communist secret police (from the years 1944–90), in the successor governments or even in civil service positions. '' ...
* Vergangenheitsbewältigung
''Vergangenheitsbewältigung'' (, "struggle of overcoming the past" or "work of coping with the past") is a German compound noun describing processes that since the later 20th century have become key in the study of post-1945 German literature, so ...
Notes and references
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