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Posted on 06/08/2004 4:59:29 PM PDT by Eurotwit
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Dr. Helmut Kohl of Germany, another great figure of that era, taped a tribute that is expected to be played at the funeral.
Yes, many people may not recall that Walesa was the first from within the curtain to start raising hell with the Soviets. He and Reagan benefited each other greatly in the victory over communism.
There is a similar part of the wall on the Reagan Library site. I was there 2 times and will go back again after the crowds go away. Lech has a better looking part of the wall! How is he doing these days? I was in Europe those days with the USAF and history was being made that I didn't pay much attention to. It was a good time to experience, even from Spain. My uncle went to Poland to find out our ancestral history on the Polish side of the family. From churches he went back to the late 1700's so far:)
It signaled, singularly, the end of Soviet communism and hastened the fall of the Iron Curtain.
The brave souls led by an electrician named Lech Walesa are kindred spirits with Ron Reagan in the cause of freedom.
I remember as a kid the same banner hanging throughout Chicago beasue of the large Polish poluation there. There was a huge one right off Oak. St. beach that you could see from LSD.
Yeah, I lived in Ann Arbor from '78 to '83. There were Solidarnosc banners all over Hamtramk and other Detroit suburbs. At all of the street fairs there were Polish-American clubs with booths selling kielbasa and pivo with the proceeds going to support the freedom fighters. The UofM lefties didn't care for it too much but how can you really argue with kielbasa and pivo?
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