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Lech Dymarski (born 18 October 1949) is a Polish poet, opposition political activist in Communist Poland, state functionary in post-Communist Poland, member of regional legislature (Greater Poland Regional Assembly, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010). [1]
Maciej Płażyński was a Polish liberal-conservative politician.
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński was a Polish politician who served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 2005, and as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in 2010. Before his tenure as president, he previously served as President of the Supreme Audit Office from 1992 to 1995 and later Minister of Justice and Public Prosecutor General in Jerzy Buzek's cabinet from 2000 until his dismissal in July 2001.
Józef Oleksy was a Polish left-wing politician, former chairman of the Democratic Left Alliance.
The Order of Polonia Restituta is a Polish state order established 4 February 1921. It is conferred on both military and civilians as well as on foreigners for outstanding achievements in the fields of education, science, sport, culture, art, economics, national defense, social work, civil service, or for furthering good relations between countries.
Czesław Jan Kiszczak(listen) was a Polish general, communist-era interior minister (1981–1990) and prime minister (1989).
Anna Maria Radziwiłł was a Polish historian, educator, and politician. She was a former member of the Polish Senate and Minister of Education, and was very active in educational reform and the underground educational movement during the Communist era in Poland.
F. Romuald Spasowski, once an ardent Communist and Poland's ambassador to the United States, is best known for having defected at the height of the Solidarity crisis in 1981.
Ryszard Józef Musielak, was formerly one of the leaders of the Polish Solidarity union in Toruń. Currently one of the leaders of the local branch of Committee for the Defence of Democracy.
Jan Józef Lipski was a Polish critic, literature historian, politician and freemason. As a soldier of the Home Army, he fought in the Warsaw Uprising. Editor of collected works by Jan Kasprowicz, Benedykt Chmielowski and Gabriela Zapolska.
Arkadiusz Czesław Rybicki was a Polish politician.
Przemysław Edgar Gosiewski was a Polish politician and a deputy chair of Law and Justice party. In the 1980s he was active in the Solidarity movement. In years 2006-2007 he served as a Deputy Prime Minister of Poland in Jarosław Kaczyński's government.
Jan Rulewski is a Polish politician, activist of Solidarity; a Member of the Polish Sejm (1991-2001) and a Senator.
Janusz Marek Kurtyka was a Polish historian, and from December 2005 until his death in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash, the second president of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN).
Krzysztof Jakub Putra was a Polish politician, a member of the Law and Justice (PiS). He served as a Deputy of the Senate Marshal from October 27, 2005 until November 4, 2007. He later became a Sejm member and PiS candidate for Sejm Marshal.
Andrzej Bobola Czuma(listen) is a Polish politician, lawyer and historian. He was an activist of the Polish anti-Communist opposition in the Polish People's Republic and was oppressed and imprisoned by the Communist authorities. In the 1980s he left for the USA where he became an activist in the community of Polish expats. Since 2006, Czuma has been a member of the Polish Parliament as a representative of the Civic Platform political party.
Jadwiga Staniszkis is a Polish sociologist and political scientist, essayist, a former professor at the University of Warsaw and the Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu, a Polish campus of National-Louis University.
Jarosław Guzy is a Polish politician and businessman, first chairman of the Independent Students Union.
Major Franciszek Jerzy Jaskulski, aka 'Zagończyk', was a soldier in the Polish Home Army and a commander in Freedom and Independence in the Radom region of Poland. In 2007 the Polish president Lech Kaczyński posthumously awarded Jaskulski the order of Polonia Restituta.
Erazm Ciołek was a Polish photojournalist, author of many exhibitions and laureate of various awards. He is considered as the main photographer of the Solidarity movement.
Piotr Paweł Morta is a Polish political activist, dissident, economist, co-inventor, activist in underground "Solidarity", Krajowy Mistrz Racjonalizacji 1983, and vice-chairman of European Works Council Pfleiderer AG.
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