Tadeusz Mazowiecki

Prime Minister of Poland
In office
24 January 1989 – 4 January 1991
Preceded by	Czesław Kiszczak
Succeeded by	Jan Krzysztof Bielecki
Born	April 18, 1927 Płock, Poland
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Tadeusz Mazowiecki (born April 18, 1927 in Płock) is a Polish author, journalist, social worker and politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist prime minister in Central and Eastern Europe after World War II. April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Motto: none Voivodship Masovian Municipal government Rada Miasta PÅ‚ock Mayor MirosÅ‚aw Milewski Area 88 km² Population  - city  - urban  - density 128 210 - 1456/km² Founded City rights - - Latitude Longitude 52°33 N 19°42 E Area code +48 24 Car plates WP (city) WPL (rest) Twin towns Darmstadt in... Solidarity (Polish: Solidarność; full name: Independent Self-governing Trade Union Solidarity — Niezależny SamorzÄ…dny ZwiÄ…zek Zawodowy Solidarność) is a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980 at the GdaÅ„sk Shipyards, and originally led by Lech WaÅ‚Ä™sa. ... This is a list of Prime Ministers of Poland. ... This article is becoming very long. ...

Tadeusz Mazowiecki as Prime Minister of Poland in 1989

Shortly after World War II Tadeusz Mazowiecki studied law but never graduated. Until 1955 he was a member of a Catholic organization, Pax; he was later removed from its membership list. In 1958 he was one of the founding members of Więź monthly, one of the few relatively democratic newspapers in Poland at that time. Between 1961 and 1971 Mazowiecki was a member of the Polish Sejm as a member of Znak Christian democratic movement. from http://www. ... from http://www. ... This is a list of Prime Ministers of Poland. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is becoming very long. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In computer security, PaX is a patch for the Linux kernel that implements least privilege protections for memory pages. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... This article is about the lower chamber of Polish parliament. ... Znak was an association of lay Catholics in Poland, active between 1956 and 1976. ... Christian Democracy is a political ideology, born at the end of the 19th century, largely as a result of the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum of Pope Leo XIII, in which the Vatican recognizes workers misery and agrees that something should be done about it, in reaction to the rise of...

In 1970, after peaceful demonstrations of workers were brutally suppressed by the Communist authorities he voted to establish a commission to investigate the matter. Re-election now being impossible, Mazowiecki joined the anti-communist opposition. In August 1980 he became the head of the Experts Commission (Komisja Ekspertów), a group of advisors for the Solidarity movement and its leader Lech Wałęsa. After the August Agreement was signed with the regime, Mazowiecki founded the Solidarność weekly, the only newspaper not controlled by Communists in Central and Eastern Europe. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Solidarity (Polish: Solidarność; full name: Independent Self-governing Trade Union Solidarity — Niezależny SamorzÄ…dny ZwiÄ…zek Zawodowy Solidarność) is a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980 at the GdaÅ„sk Shipyards, and originally led by Lech WaÅ‚Ä™sa. ... Lech WaÅ‚Ä™sa ( ; in English often ; born September 29, 1943, Popowo, Poland) is a Polish politician, a former trade union and human rights activist, and also a former electrician. ...

After martial law was imposed in Poland on December 13, 1981, Mazowiecki was interned, at first in Strzeblinek, then in Jaworz and Darłówek. He was one of the last members of Solidarity released from an internment camp for political prisoners, on December 23, 1982. In 1987 he left the country and started to round up support for Solidarity and the democratic opposition in Poland. He returned in 1988 and took part in secret talks with the Communist regime in Magdalenka. He became one of the leaders of the opposition at the Round Table talks between February 6 and April 5, 1989. Broadcast of Wojciech Jaruzelski declaring martial law (December 13, 1981) The period of martial law in Poland refers to the period of time from December 13, 1981 to July 22, 1983 when the government of the Peoples Republic of Poland drastically restricted normal life. ... December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A political prisoner may be someone held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, because their ideas or image are deemed by a government to either challenge or threaten the authority of the state. ... December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Round-table negotiations. ... February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On August 25, 1989 he was chosen Prime Minister of Poland, the first non-Communist Prime Minister in all Central and Eastern Europe after World War II. The Mazowiecki government, although partially controlled by the PZPR, started a peaceful transformation of the Polish political system. Among its most important accomplishments were: August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of Prime Ministers of Poland. ... The Polish United Workers Party (PUWP; in Polish, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, PZPR), was the governing political party in communist-ruled Poland from its creation (through a fusion of the communist Polish Workers Party and the left wing of the Polish Socialist Party) in December 1948 until the regimes...

• liberalization of life in Poland
• dissolution of the Służba Bezpieczeństwa (secret political police) and ZOMO (paramilitary riot police)
• restoration of private property, free market and competition
• dissolution of the centrally-controlled economy
• abolition of censorship and restoration of freedom of the press
• economic reforms supervised by Leszek Balcerowicz
• restoration of freedom of speech and freedom of religion

Tadeusz Mazowiecki, 1989

Mazowiecki was often criticized (mostly by right-wing politicians) for co-operating with former PZPR members and starting the gruba kreska policy (Polish for thick line). He also opposed the marginalization of former Communists in public life. In 1990 he took part in the presidential elections and lost. After his defeat, he gave up his post as a Prime Minister on December 14 and was succeeded by Jan Krzysztof Bielecki. Służba Bezpieczeństwa (or SB) Ministerstwa Spraw Wewnętrznych, of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - was the name of communist internal intelligence agency and secret police, established in the Peoples Republic of Poland in 1956, SB was the main organ in Poland responsible for political repression, until... ZOMO units in Poland (1981) Zmotoryzowane Odwody Milicji Obywatelskiej (ZOMO) (Motorized Reserves of the Citizens Militia), were paramilitary riot police formations during the Communist Era, in Peoples Republic of Poland. ... A free market is an idealized market, where all economic decisions and actions by individuals regarding transfer of money, goods, and services are voluntary, and are therefore devoid of coercion and theft (some definitions of coercion are inclusive of theft). Colloquially and loosely, a free market economy is an economy... Competition is the act of striving against another force for the purpose of achieving dominance or attaining a reward or goal, or out of a biological imperative such as survival. ... Censorship is the control of speech and other forms of human expression. ... Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government of free public press for its citizens and their associations, extended to members of news gathering organizations, and their published reporting. ... Leszek Balcerowicz (pronounced: [lεʃεk balʦεrɔviʧ]) (born January 19, 1947) is an economist from Poland and Chairman of the National Bank of Poland. ... A public anti-war demonstration in Liverpool, England Freedom of speech is the concept of being able to speak freely without censorship. ... It has been suggested that Religious toleration be merged into this article or section. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Polish United Workers Party (PUWP; in Polish, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, PZPR), was the governing political party in communist-ruled Poland from its creation (through a fusion of the communist Polish Workers Party and the left wing of the Polish Socialist Party) in December 1948 until the regimes... Gruba kreska (Polish for thick line) was a term used by prime minister of Poland Tadeusz Mazowiecki in 1989 in his first parliamentary speech in Sejm. ... This article is about the year. ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (b. ...

After the dissolution of the OKP, Mazowiecki became one of the founding members (together with Jan Maria Rokita, Aleksander Hall and Hanna Suchocka) of the Unia Demokratyczna party. In 1990 he became its leader. He was criticized by the left-wing part of the party for his policies and was often found too conservative. In 1995 he gave up his post. Jan Maria Władysław Rokita (born June 18, 1959 in Cracow) is a Polish conservative-liberal politician, a member of Sejm, the lower chamber of the Polish parliament, and chairman of the parliamentery caucus of Platforma Obywatelska (Citizens Platform). ... Aleksander Hall (1957-) is a Polish politician. ... Categories: People stubs | Politics stubs | Liberal related stubs | 1946 births | Prime Ministers of Poland ... The Unia Wolności (Freedom Union, UW) is a liberal party in Poland, which was founded on March 20, 1994 out of the merger of the Democratic Union (Unia Demokratyczna, UD) and the Congress of Liberal Democrats (Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny, KLD). ... This article is about the year. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Between 1989 and 2001 Mazowiecki was a member of Polish Sejm. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... This article is about the lower chamber of Polish parliament. ...

In 1992 he was elected the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations and its representative in former Yugoslavia during the Yugoslav Wars. In 1995, directly after the massacre in Srebrenica, he resigned in protest against the policies of European countries and of the USA that did nothing to help the nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina.^{[citation needed]} 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... United Nations Commission on Human Rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all South Slavic languages, Југославија in Serbian and Macedonian Cyrillic) is a term used for the three separate political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ... The Yugoslav wars were a series of violent conflicts in the territory of the former Yugoslavia that took place between 1991 and 2001. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Identified victims of Srebrenica Massacre Map of military operations during the Srebrenica massacre Srebrenica Genocide Memorial A Bosniak woman prays above a marble stone engraved with 8,370 names of Srebrenica massacre victims at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari near Srebrenica, July 6, 2006. ...

In 1997 he wrote the preamble of the present Polish constitution. In November 2002 he left the Unia Wolności (Freedom Union) party in protest against coalitions with the SLD and Samoobrona parties. In 2005 he was co-founder of Polish Democratic Party - demokraci.pl, which is a continuation of the Freedom Union. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up Preamble in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The Freedom Union (Unia WolnoÅ›ci, UW) was a liberal party in Poland. ... Democratic Left Alliance (Polish: Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej, SLD) is one of the main Polish social democratic political parties. ... Self-Defense of the Polish Republic ( Polish: Samoobrona Rzeczypospolitiej Polskiej, SRP) is a political party and trade union in Poland. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Democratic Party () is a liberal party in Poland, publicly announced on February 28 and formally established on May 9, 2005 as an enlargement of the Freedom Union (Unia WolnoÅ›ci), which it legally succeeds. ...

See also

• History of Poland
• Sejm
• Unia Demokratyczna
• Unia Wolności

In the period following its emergence in the 10th century, the Polish nation was led by a series of strong rulers who converted the Poles to Christianity, created a strong Central European state and integrated Poland into European culture. ... This article is about the lower chamber of Polish parliament. ... The Unia Wolności (Freedom Union, UW) is a liberal party in Poland, which was founded on March 20, 1994 out of the merger of the Democratic Union (Unia Demokratyczna, UD) and the Congress of Liberal Democrats (Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny, KLD). ... The Freedom Union (Unia WolnoÅ›ci, UW) was a liberal party in Poland. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... This is a list of Prime Ministers of Poland. ... Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (b. ...

External links

• Periodic Reports on the situation in Bosnia