# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lech-kaczynski
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:45:31.603Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Warsaw in 1949, Lech Kaczyński appeared as a child actor in a 1962 Polish film with his identical twin Jarosław before turning to law. During the communist era he joined the Workers' Defence Committee and became an adviser to Solidarity during the Gdańsk Shipyard strikes in 1980, then was interned under martial law as an "anti-socialist element." After communism fell he served as senator, then security minister under Lech Wałęsa until being fired in 1992 over a government dispute. He co-founded Law and Justice with his brother in 2001, won the presidency in 2005 with 54% of the vote, and in 2006 made Jarosław prime minister—the first and only twin brothers to hold both offices simultaneously. On 10 April 2010, his plane crashed on approach to Smolensk North Airport in Russia, killing him, his wife, and the senior officials traveling with him to mark the 70th anniversary of Katyn.