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...Walesa's rough arrogance with gentle gibes. "I appreciate Mr. Walesa's achievements," he remarked. "But he reminds me of an athlete who keeps harking back to the fact that he once won a gold medal." The challenger's strategy worked. "Symbolically, Kwasniewski represented modernity and change," says Wiktor Osiatynski, a Polish historian. "It is a corrupted modernity with a communist past on its back, but it's still modernity...
Doubts remain, though the President-elect resigned from the Social Democrats in a move to broaden his support. Osiatynski worries that most of the postcommunist countries have yet to adopt a constitution and laws that can protect against a return of totalitarianism. Says he: "Now communists are back in power and have control over a great part of capitalism and the state. That is very...
...attended last weekend's San Diego convention said the only place there was no apartheid in South Africa during that brutal regime was at A.A. meetings. In Poland the first A.A. convention in 1984 attracted 27 groups from across the country; there are now 940 groups. Professor Wiktor Osiatynski, chairman of the Commission of Education on Alcoholism in Warsaw's Stefan Batory Foundation, says A.A.'s rapid rise in Poland can largely be attributed to the Solidarity trade-union movement. "Solidarity was the first event in Poland's history where people began to realize that they could tackle their problems...
...result of the defeated uprisings has left a scar on the national psyche, a kind of ambivalence and fear that endure to this day. "On the one hand," says Social Historian Wiktor Osiatynski, "the Pole applauds the drive for democratic freedoms. On the other hand, not far below the surface roils the thought that previous such efforts for national salvation have ended in catastrophe...
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