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Friday 10th February 2012
Poland celebrates end of communism
7th June 2009© Łukasz Unterschuetz/trojmiast
Lech Walesa shows the collapse of communism beginning with the 1989 elections in Poland
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Coming after the famed Round Table negotiations between Poland’s then communist government and the Lech Walesa led opposition, the June 4 elections heralded the end of 40 years of communist rule, and helped trigger a wave of revolutions in Central Europe that shattered the Iron Curtain.
Speaking at a formal event in Krakow to commemorate the elections that brought together former dissidents and heads of state, the Solidarity icon Lech Walesa said that Poland had every right to enjoy its moment.
“Let us be happy and ...
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