Word: janowski
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...birth in 1980, there was little public celebrating after the election. Perhaps it was because people sensed the gravity of the moment. More important, they had seen their hopes dashed too many times before. "In Polish society, nobody has the idea of being a winner," explained Solidarity official Alfred Janowski on a visit to Washington last week. "We are so used to always losing." It was to counter such defeatism, rooted in two centuries of foreign occupation, that Walesa told a campaign rally in Gdansk last month, "Whoever doubts must ask himself, 'Has there ever before been such a chance...