Word: niezabitowska
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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...
...alternative was prison. She admits she rambled on about her work and her personal life, but says she recounted only what she thought were "things that they already knew." In the end, she says, Grzelak suggested she collaborate. She said "No." Grzelak invited her back the next day, but Niezabitowska said she was not about to change her mind. "That was the last meeting I had with them," she insists. A few weeks later, outside a grocery store, she ran into Grzelak, who greeted her with a smile and another invitation to talk. "Leave me alone," she said. Niezabitowska...