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Lech Kaczyński

Polish politician, democratic oppositionist, ministry of justice, president of Poland (1949–2010)

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Lived 1949–2010, aged 61
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    1949–2010
    Aged 61
  • Known for
    The Two Who Stole the …
    1962
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Updated 2026-06-08

Poland's president from 2005 to 2010, died in a plane crash near Smolensk alongside his wife and much of the country's senior leadership while en route to commemorate the Katyn massacre. He'd appointed his twin brother prime minister the year after taking office.

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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, a…

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Lech Kaczyński
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It is necessary to restore the dignity of the presidential office and cut it off decisively from non-transparent connections...
— Rzeczpospolita interview (March 2005)
Lech Kaczyński
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What we want is a moral revolution, not one that people associate with street riots and the disorganisation of life.
— Rzeczpospolita interview (March 2005)
Lech Kaczyński
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I'm opposed to the idea of a flat-rate tax, and I doubt I'd sign it. Attempts to introduce a liberal utopia need to be opposed.
— Rzeczpospolita interview (March 2005)
Lech Kaczyński
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The Polish society is not composed solely of entrepreneurial and energetic young people. I can't image pensioners who get ZL600 or ZL800 a month getting even less than that.
— Rzeczpospolita interview (March 2005)
Lech Kaczyński
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It sets a path towards the elimination of nation states and the emergence of a European state in the strictest sense of the word. I'm definitely opposed to it.
— On the EU Constitution
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