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I wonder if Poland would do same thing honor President Reagan by having statute in front of govt building

BTW I did hear Obama admsation people got turn down for invitate they did want to go Hungary told them all slot was full LOL!

Excerpt from former Atty General Ed Meese’s speech there today:

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“Today, with a statue in the appropriately named Freedom Square in Budapest, Hungarians will honor the man who helped secure their freedom at last from Communist rule.

It is just one of four celebrations being held this week across Europe to honor the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ronald Reagan organized by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.

The Czech Republic, Poland and Great Britain will also hold events in honor of the 40th president and his legacy in bringing down the Iron Curtain.

Ronald Reagan was 45 years old when the Hungarians staged their revolt in 1956.

Watching from afar, the future president saw the bloody end of the Hungarian Revolution as evidence of Communism’s inherent evil.

Looking back, it’s strange how few in the West learned what Reagan did — that there was no accommodation with Communism. Other countries, particularly Czechoslovakia in 1968 during the so-called Prague Spring, would meet the same fate.”

Possibly. Warsaw has a number of streets named after US Presidents. Though do remember that Poland's fight against communism started (and was won) much earlier than in other parts of E. Europe. It expanded just after the Polish Pope was elected and when he visited Warsaw, communism was erased like a bad memory. Shortly after in 80 Solidarność (Solidarity) was formed. There was martial law in the 80s but the communists had to lift it and shared govt with Solidarity in '85/

Reagan undoubtedly influenced this but he was not as pivotal as in the destruction of communism in the rest of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.

There will probably be a statue raised to him, but not sure when.