Lech Kaczyński

Also known as Lech Alexander Kaczyński

Polish politician, democratic oppositionist, ministry of justice, president of Poland (1949–2010)

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Lech Kaczyński was a Polish politician who opposed communist rule and later served as the country's president from 2005 until his death in 2010. He is historically significant as a democratic activist who helped shape Poland's transition from communism and as a major political figure during Poland's early post-communist period.

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Born: 1949
Died: 2010
Works: 3

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Etos państwowca
Warto być Polakiem
Służba Ojczyźnie
Wolność i sprawiedliwość w zatrudnieniu
Ostatni wywiad

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Germany
Active from: 1960-03-26

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Neuser / Kaczynski / Schippa2020

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Listeners: 77
Total plays: 177

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5 total works indexed

Blinatumomab versus Chemotherapy for Advanced Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
· 2017 · cited 1,894x
Stereotactic body radiation therapy: The report of AAPM Task Group 101
· 2010 · cited 1,886x
Excessive Toxicity When Treating Central Tumors in a Phase II Study of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Medically Inoperable Early-Stage Lung Cancer
· 2006 · cited 1,295x
Application of Spectroscopic Methods for Structural Analysis of Chitin and Chitosan
· 2010 · cited 1,002x
Short- and medium-chain fatty acids in energy metabolism: the cellular perspective
· 2016 · cited 914x

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Quotes

“The politician has a right to defend his dignity. I ignored the first wave of invectives, but the second one was too much, I couldn't have handled it and I had said in hard (but for the street - where I was - soft) words that he should go.”
“It is necessary to restore the dignity of the presidential office and cut it off decisively from non-transparent connections... For the first time in many years, I see a chance in Poland for major change. The presidential office can guarantee that these changes are carried out without undermining the social equilibrium.”
“What we want is a moral revolution, not one that people associate with street riots and the disorganisation of life. A transformation of attitudes that will introduce a normal, moral order in the functioning of the state. An order whereby honesty is a positive value, and dishonesty a negative one.”
“I'm opposed to the idea of a flat-rate tax, and I doubt I'd sign it. Attempts to introduce a liberal utopia need to be opposed. The presidential office should oppose such ideas and care for social equilibrium to be maintained.”
“The Polish society is not composed solely of entrepreneurial and energetic young people. I can't image pensioners who get ZL600 or ZL800 a month getting even less than that. That'd be immoral.”
“It sets a path towards the elimination of nation states and the emergence of a European state in the strictest sense of the word. I'm definitely opposed to it.”

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Official website: www.president.pl/en
Image: Lech Kaczyński.jpg
Number of children: 1

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Commons category: Lech Kaczyński
date of birth: 1949-06-18
date of death: 2010-04-10
Commons gallery: Lech Kaczyński
name in native language: Lech Kaczyński
IPA transcription: ˈlɛx alɛkˈsandɛr kaˈt͡ʂɨj̃skʲi
P10632: Lech Kaczyński
date of burial or cremation: 2010-04-18
described at URL: sejm.gov.pl/smolensk.nsf/bio.xsp?name=Kaczy%C5%84ski%20Lech

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Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (18 June 1949 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician who served as the 4th president of Poland from 2005 to 2010, when he died in the Smolensk air disaster. Earlier, he served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 to 2005. Prior to these tenures, Kaczyński 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.

Born in Warsaw, he starred in a 1962 Polish film, The Two Who Stole the Moon, with his identical twin brother Jarosław. Kaczyński was a graduate of law and administration of Warsaw University. In 1980, he was awarded his PhD by Gdańsk University. In 1990, he completed his habilitation in labour and employment law. He later assumed professorial positions at Gdańsk University and Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. During the communist period, Kaczyński was an activist in the pro-democratic anti-communist movement in Poland, the Workers' Defence Committee, as well as the Independent Trade Union movement. In August 1980, he became an adviser to the Inter-Enterprise Strike Committee in the Gdańsk Shipyard and the Solidarity movement. After the communists imposed martial law in December 1981, he was interned as an "anti-socialist element." After his release, he returned to trade union activities, becoming a member of the underground Solidarity. When Solidarity was legalised again in the late 1980s, Kaczyński was an active adviser to Lech Wałęsa and his Solidarity Citizens' Committee in 1988. From February to April 1989, he participated in the Polish Round Table Talks along with his brother.