Word: malgorzata
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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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