Editing Thick line

The '''thick line''' policy ([[Polish language|Polish]]: '''gruba kreska''', ''thick stroke'', or '''gruba linia''', ''thick line'') was the term used by [[prime minister]] of [[Poland]], [[Tadeusz Mazowiecki]], in the exposé<sub>[[:pl:Exposé|[pl]]]</sub> delivered in the [[Sejm]], on September 12th 1989.<ref name="americamagazine.org">Gerald J. Beyer, [http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=4574 "What Ever Became of Solidarity?"] ''[[America (Jesuit magazine)|America]]'' magazine, January 16, 2006. Retrieved October 20, 2011.</ref>

He said, "We split away the history of our recent past with ''a thick line''. We will be responsible only for what we have done to help extract Poland from her current predicament, from now on". (''Przeszłość odkreślamy '''grubą linią'''. Odpowiadać będziemy jedynie za to, co uczyniliśmy, by wydobyć Polskę z obecnego stanu załamania.'')<ref>
Dominika Blachnicka - Ciacek, [http://liberteworld.com/2012/05/02/reading-mazowieckis-expose-twenty-years-later ''Reading Mazowiecki's expose twenty years later'']</ref>

[[File:Tadeusz Mazowiecki nah.jpg|thumb|right|Tadeusz Mazowiecki in November 1989, on a campaign trail in [[Krzyżowa, Silesian Voivodeship|Krzyżowa]].]]

In more recent years, his intentions were considered by many people, and his ''gruba kreska'' is often understood as a policy of nonpunishment for crimes committed by the communist regime of pre-1989 Poland.<ref>Tadeusz Mazowiecki, [http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/solidarity-takes-power ''Solidarity Takes Power'']</ref><ref>
D. Szporer, [https://books.google.com/books?id=PcBKG1QpMJcC&dq=mazowiecki+thick+stroke&pg=PA269 ''Solidarity: The Great Workers Strike of 1980''] on ''Google books''</ref><ref>
Daniela Ivanova, [http://20years.tol.org/2009/11/19/tadeusz-mazowiecki Tadeusz Mazowiecki]
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==See also==
* [[Polish Round Table Agreement]]
* [[Lustration in Poland]]
* [[Vergangenheitsbewältigung]]

==Notes and references==
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[[Category:Politics of Poland]]
[[Category:Polish political phrases]]
[[Category:1989 in Poland]]
[[Category:1989 quotations]]


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