Editing Jan Olszewski (section)

==Personal life and death==
[[File:Pożegnanie byłego premiera RP Jana Olszewskiego (2).jpg|thumb|Olszewski lying in state before the funeral in Warszaw]]
Olszewski was married to Marta Olszewska, a former activist, editor and journalist of ''[[Tygodnik Solidarność]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nowi członkowie Kapituły Orderu Odrodzenia Polski|url=http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1342,title,Nowi-czlonkowie-Kapituly-Orderu-Odrodzenia-Polski,wid,8921415,wiadomosc.html|website=Wiadomości.wp.pl|access-date=6 November 2007}}</ref> On the night of 16 August 2000, Olszewski was involved in a deadly car crash on [[National road 8 (Poland)|national road 8]] near the village of [[Marków-Towarzystwo]] in [[Masovian Voivodeship]], when the car Olszewski was a passenger in collided with a truck. The driver of the car (Olszewski's party treasurer) was killed in the crash, while Olszewski escaped with only minor injuries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fakty.interia.pl/mazowieckie/news-jan-olszewski-mial-wypadek-samochodowy,nId,1116210|publisher=Inertia.pl|title=Jan Olszewski miał wypadek samochodowy|access-date=15 November 2013|date=17 August 2000}}</ref> In July 2014, Olszewski was made an honorary citizen of [[Warsaw]] by Mayor [[Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz]] for his participation in the [[Warsaw Uprising]] as well as citing his moral and social authority in service of the city.<ref name=TVN/> Olszewski died after a long illness on 7 February 2019 in a Warsaw hospital.

===Legacy===
Olszewski remains a controversial figure within Polish politics. Members of the right-wing, particularly [[Law and Justice]] leader [[Jarosław Kaczyński]], have praised the former premier for his anti-communist stances and legal principles. On the twentieth anniversary of the Olszewski government's vote of no confidence in 2012, Kaczyński praised Olszewski for attempting to stop the rapid privatizations of the early 1990s, and having helped steer Poland towards its eventual integration into [[NATO]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fakty.interia.pl/mazowieckie/news-jan-olszewski-mial-wypadek-samochodowy,nId,1116210|publisher=[[Polskie Radio]]|title=Kaczyński: rząd Olszewskiego likwidował sieci oplatające Polskę.|access-date=15 November 2013|date=4 June 2012}}</ref> 

Former Interior Minister [[Antoni Macierewicz]] also affirmed his personal belief in 2012 that had the Olszewski government not fallen, "the [[2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash|Smolensk disaster]] would never have transpired".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://wyborcza.pl/1,76842,11860329,Macierewicz__Gdyby_nie_obalono_Olszewskiego__nie_byloby.html|newspaper=[[Gazeta Wyborcza]]|title=Macierewicz: Gdyby nie obalono Olszewskiego, nie byłoby Smoleńska|access-date=15 November 2013|date=4 June 2012}}</ref>

Politicians on the centre-right have viewed Olszewski more critically. [[Christian National Union]] politician [[Stefan Niesiołowski]] strongly defended Olszewski during his vote of no confidence in 1992, declaring to the premier's detractors that "you're making a political mistake and Poland won't forget this error".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/56,114884,11846594,Stefan_Niesiolowski___obronca_rzadu_i_Macierewicza,,10.html|author=Monika Margraf|publisher=[[Gazeta.pl]]|title=Stefan Niesiołowski - obrońca rządu i Macierewicza|access-date=17 June 2014|date=4 June 2012}}</ref> In an interview in 2007, Niesiołowski (now a [[Civic Platform]] parliamentarian) regretted his defense of the former prime minister in hindsight, describing Olszewski as "being a poor man who supported a moral lie" with the Macierewicz List, "and was still silent".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/wiadomosc.html?kat=48996&wid=8905176&rfbawp=1180975106.058|publisher=[[Wirtualna Polska]]|title=Macierewicz i Kaczyńscy to grabarze lustracji|access-date=17 June 2014|date=4 June 2007}}</ref> 

Prime Minister [[Donald Tusk]] similarly accused Olszewski of misleading information in 2008 during a non-governmental investigation into communist era archives conducted by the former premier, declaring: "I know that in Poland there are politicians who have genuinely strange archives and cannot get used to the idea that they're no longer prime ministers or heads of committees anymore, spending instead a lifetime in these archives, poisoning our public space with their own interpretations of what they have found".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-z-kraju,3/olszewski-gangsterskie-i-bezprawne-wywiezienie-akt,63267.html|publisher=[[TVN24]]|title=Olszewski: Gangsterskie i bezprawne wywiezienie akt|access-date=17 June 2014|date=8 July 2008}}</ref> 

In an opinion poll conducted by [[CBOS]] in 2014, asking respondents to evaluate who was the best prime minister of the [[Third Polish Republic|Third Republic]], Olszewski was placed at seventh place.<ref>{{cite web|title=Najlepszy premier od upadku komunizmu? Wygrywa Mazowiecki, Kaczyński przed Tuskiem|url=http://wyborcza.pl/1,75478,16045548,Najlepszy_premier_od_upadku_komunizmu__Wygrywa_Mazowiecki_.html|website=wyborcza.pl|publisher=[[Gazeta Wyborcza]]|access-date=27 May 2014}}</ref> A similar poll conducted by Millward Brown later that year positioned Olszewski at sixth place.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kalukin|first1=Rafał|title=Kto był najlepszym premierem III RP?|url=http://polska.newsweek.pl/najlepsi-premierzy-sondaz-newsweek-pl,artykuly,347273,1.html|website=polska.newsweek.pl|publisher=[[Newsweek Polska]]|access-date=8 September 2014|archive-date=10 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910000439/http://polska.newsweek.pl/najlepsi-premierzy-sondaz-newsweek-pl,artykuly,347273,1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>