New York Times o Jacku Kuroniu

[Gość: JeGoPamieci!]

Communist - Era Dissident Jacek Kuron Dies
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: June 17, 2004

Filed at 9:04 a.m. ET

WARSAW, Poland (AP)

[Gość: Wlodek]

Wszystko jedno co pisze NYT
Liczy sie ze odszedl od nas Czlowiek Wielkiego Formatu.
Wielki wizjoner i uporczywy niezlomny wojownik z komuna.
Normalni obywatele uznaja wielkosc postaci.
Male kundle dalej beda szczekac...
To naprawde byl KTOS!!!

[Gość: Ruda]

To był NAJUCZCIWSZY Z NICH WSZYSTKICH CZŁOWIEK, nie rwał się do stanowisk a
jak kierował ZUS -em tojeszcze ten moloch był dla ludzi a nie jak dziś dla
URZĘDNIKÓW Powstańmy i Pomilczmy Odszedł UCZCIWY CZŁOWIEK CZEŚĆ JEGO
PAMIĘCI,Jego jedynego mi żal Już nikt i nigdy (z polityków ) nie wzbudzi we
mnie żadnego żalu . Zasmucona Ruda

[Gość: kornik]

Ruda, jakim ZUS-em kierował? Zastanów się co ty piszesz, bo smarując takie
bzdury na pewno nie oddajesz należytego hołdu temu wyjątkowemu człowiekowi.

[Gość: animaAnimal]

nie obchodzi mnie czy NYtimes pisze, czy nie pisze

francuskie media rowniez podaly wiadomosc odejscia JACKA KURONIA

dziwia mnie wpisy, ze co z tego, ze NYTimes podaje takie wiadomosci

dziwi mnie brak wpisow, ze dzieki Niemu njabardziej poszkodowani i ocaleni
sie nie wpisuja ( widocznie nie sa z internetem za "pan brat")

i dziwi mnie imieninowa impreza pana Walesy w obliczu odejscia tak wspanialego
"ojca chrzestnego bylej 'solidarnosci')

pan Walesa byl obecny na opuszczonych wpol flagach pogrzebie prezydenta Reagana

ale nie opuscil swych imieninowych parasoli (Walesa, ten krol i sprawca
'pomrocznosci niejasnej' i krwotoku ubezlasnowolnienia RzeczyPospolitej°

wybaczcie, sobie, Wlodkowi i innym to wstyd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gość: Wlodek]

> dziwia mnie wpisy, ze co z tego, ze NYTimes podaje takie wiadomosci
>

Co cie dziwi? I czemu? Ladnie z ich strony, ze napisali kawalek ku pamieci.
Sadzisz, ze czytelnicy NYT, czy innych wiele z tego faktu pojeli?
Jacek Kuron byl NASZ i my jestesmy Mu wdzieczni pamiec.... To wszystko w " tem
temacie"

> dziwi mnie brak wpisow, ze dzieki Niemu njabardziej poszkodowani i ocaleni
> sie nie wpisuja ( widocznie nie sa z internetem za "pan brat")
Walesa byl obecny na opuszczonych wpol flagach pogrzebie prezydenta Reagana
>
> ale nie opuscil swych imieninowych parasoli (Walesa, ten krol i sprawca
> 'pomrocznosci niejasnej' i krwotoku ubezlasnowolnienia RzeczyPospolitej°
>
> wybaczcie, sobie, Wlodkowi i innym to wstyd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
W tym drugima kawalku sam chyba doznales oslnienia i chyba tez cie trafila
pomrocznosc jasna..... Przeczytaj cos napisal i przetlumacz na nasze....
Moze sam sie zawstydzisz z jasnosci wlasnych wywodow.
>

NYT,orbituary,Jacek Kuron once again

[Gość: a Walesa sie bawi]

Jacek Kuron, of Solidarity, Dies at 70
By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN

Published: June 18, 2004


Associated Press, 2003
Jacek Kuron

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Jacek Kuron, who inspired and tutored generations of Poles to struggle against
Communist rule, serving as the ultimately successful godfather of a resistance
that coalesced around the Solidarity labor union movement, died yesterday in
Warsaw. He was 70 years old and had been ill for more than a year.

A spokesman for the Hospital of the Interior Ministry announced his death, The
Associated Press reported.

Mr. Kuron's death came under the jurisdiction of the same ministry that had been
his host for an imprisonment of almost 10 years in the Communist era. At the
end, however, it was a benevolent ministry in a democratic Poland that cared for
him as an honored citizen who had helped to bring about Poland's emergence from
totalitarian rule, a man who went on to serve in Parliament and as labor
minister, and who also ran for president, winning 10 percent of the vote in 1995.

Yesterday, his old partners in resistance joined with current political leaders
in praising Mr. Kuron, who had challenged Communist rulers first as an ardent
and ideological young party member in the 1950's, and then kept training
generations of dissidents as an outcast who was continuously hounded and imprisoned.

''Without him, the events of August 1980 would have been impossible," said Lech
Walesa, the leader of Solidarity and democratic Poland's first president,
referring to the strikes at the Gdansk shipyard and the union's historic victory.

In the final chapter of his fight against the Communist system, in the 1980's,
Mr. Kuron gained national prominence and international attention as the senior
organizer and guiding spirit of KOR, the Committee to Assist Workers, which
first mobilized support for striking workers in 1976. It soon became a rallying
point for many of the country's intellectuals, cultural figures and students who
provided support and resources to the industrial workers, miners and farmers
then trying to build an independent labor federation.

He first reached the front pages of the world's major newspapers when the
shipyard workers struck in Gdansk, but Mr. Kuron had been organizing for some
such upheaval for years. A man of the secular left, he had earlier met a student
named Bogdan Borusiewicz and helped him to form a small group of Gdansk workers
willing to distribute an illegal broadsheet called The Coastal Worker. One
volunteer was a welder with a thick mustache named Lech Walesa, who as an
articulate worker in a Poland that called itself "a workers' state'' struck the
intellectuals as having leadership potential.

The union rose meteorically in the early 1980's, only to be smashed when martial
law was declared on Dec 13, 1981. The Polish state and Polish society settled
into a peculiar cycle in which, over eight years, waves of arrest and repression
alternated with amnesties and relaxation.

Mr. Kuron was one of the thousands seized when the country's leader, Gen.
Wojciech Jaruzelski, ordered tanks to crush the recently legalized union. Two
and a half years later, in August 1984, he was among the last 11 detainees to be
freed. Throughout the decade, until Polish Communism finally collapsed, Mr.
Kuron could be seen at protest marches and demonstrations, often trying to keep
the peace and always speaking politely to the police in his characteristic raspy
voice. He always kept his apartment door unlocked in an open invitation to
anyone who wanted to talk, interview him or drink very strong tea, or who might
need a place to stay.

Mr. Kuron was born on March 3, 1934, in Lvov, then a Polish city and now in
Ukraine, which spells it Lviv. After the war his family moved to Poland, where
he studied pedagogy. He joined the Communist Party but got into trouble in 1953
for criticizing the government for its education and youth policies.

In 1964, together with Karol Modzelewski, a fellow professor at the University
of Warsaw, he wrote "An Open Letter to Members of the Polish United Workers
Party.'' In it they condemned the party for elitist practices, making points
similar to those that the Yugoslav Milovan Djilas had earlier raised in his
iconoclastic book "The New Class.'' Mr. Kuron was expelled from the party and
sentenced to three and a half years in prison.

Before his expulsion he organized a youth group named for General Walter, the
nom de guerre of a Polish officer, Karol Swierczevski, who fought against the
Nazis. Many of Mr. Kuron's charges followed him into a life of protest and
social activism, first in 1968, opposing Russian censorship and the Polish
government's anti-Semitic purges. Among the scouts was Adam Michnik, the former
KOR dissident leader and now Poland's most prominent editor.

Another was Seweryn Blumsztajn, another writer who had followed Mr. Kuron since
his adolescence. In a remembrance published yesterday he declared: "He was our
godfather. After the events of 1968 unimaginable things began to take place
around us. Many played their part but Jacek with his energy, visions and courage
was the chief demiurge. It was he who succeeded in giving a name to what we
managed to attain: a self-organizing society.''

Mr. Kuron is survived by his second wife, Danuta, and his son, Maciej.

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[Gość: animaAnimal]

odchodzi czlowiek wielkiego formatu

najbiedniejsi w Polsce, w tym nauczyciele, dzieki Jackowi Kuroniowi oterymali
emerytury za ktore da sie jeszcze jakos przezyc

New York Times o tym nie pisze, ale ze polskie media o tym nie wspinaja i to w
szczegole?

a, ze najbiedniejsi nie pisza, chyba tylko dlatego, ze nie maja dostepu do netu

Pozdrawiam Wlodka, Ruda, xx i Kazdego.

P.S. Emocje, zbyt wielkie... a strata zbyt duza, zwlaszcza, ze Lechu, nie zmknal
imieninowych parasoli na znak zaloby, lecz dalej swietuje, bedac przekonanym, ze
byl najlepszym prezydentem nam wspolczesnej Rzeczypospolitej....