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...crusading reporter for Poland's opposition Solidarity Weekly in the 1980s, Malgorzata Niezabitowska was among the most prominent voices of the revolution. She wrote exposés about illegal demonstrations and military crackdowns. With her husband, photographer Tomasz Tomaszewski, she chronicled the darkest days of martial law, smuggling her diaries (written under a pseudonym) and photos of tanks in the streets out of the country to a world hungry for news of Poland's awakening dissent. Later, in 1989, she was appointed spokeswoman for the government of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first democratically elected Prime Minister. Niezabitowska's charisma...
Among the other women who walk the corridors of power in Eastern Europe, Malgorzata Niezabitowska, the official spokeswoman of the Polish government, was attracted by the prospect of fundamental change. A free-lance writer in Warsaw, she was electrified in 1980 by the rise of Solidarity. "Freedom was suddenly possible, and you had to help fight for it," she recalls. Like many previously quiescent East European women, she flung herself into active opposition to the Communist regime. The political education she received as the trade union rose and fell, and the relationship she developed with Tadeusz Mazowiecki, later to become...
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