Poland’s former Defense Minister Piotr Kolodziejczyk tells how Lech Walesa and his aides sought to strengthen and extend the president’s powers by JAKUB KARPINSKI ACCORDING TO A SAYING from the communist era: “When an apple grows up, it falls down; when a politician falls down, he grows up.” In recent years, many Polish politicians whose […]

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