{"id":2469,"date":"2011-11-21T15:36:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T15:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2011-11-21T15:36:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T15:36:21","slug":"ronald-reagan-statue-unveiled-in-warsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/ronald-reagan-statue-unveiled-in-warsaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald Reagan statue unveiled in Warsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Today some recent news from Poland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former Polish president and anti-communist leader Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa unveiled a statue of Ronald Reagan on an elegant Warsaw street on Monday, honoring the late U.S. president for inspiring Poland&#8217;s toppling of communism (<strong>obalenie komunizmu<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Though Reagan&#8217;s legacy is mixed in the U.S., across much of central and eastern Europe he is considered the greatest American leader in recent history for challenging the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2011\/11\/reagan_2061696c1.jpg\" aria-label=\"Reagan 2061696c1 300x187\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2471\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2011\/11\/reagan_2061696c1-300x187.jpg\"><\/a>&#8220;I wonder whether today&#8217;s Poland, Europe and world could look the same without president Reagan,&#8221; Wa\u0142\u0119sa\u00a0said. &#8220;As a participant in those events, I must say that it&#8217;s inconceivable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The 11.5-foot bronze statue depicts a smiling Reagan in a historic moment &#8212; as he stood at a podium at Berlin&#8217;s Brandenburg gate in 1987 and said the famous words, <strong>&#8220;Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It sits across from the U.S. Embassy on Aleje Ujazdowskie, a street lined with embassies and manicured parks in the heart of the capital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;Reagan gave us hope,&#8221; said Janusz Dorosiewicz, the president of the board of the Ronald Reagan Foundation in Poland. He conceived of the monument and struggled for six years with bureaucracy to secure the prized location for the statue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Several statues of Reagan have gone up this year, the centennial of Reagan&#8217;s birth. Most notably, monuments to him have been erected in London and in Budapest, Hungary, and yet another is to be unveiled later this week in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve been joking that there are so many statues that we should do a coffee table book,&#8221; said Linda Bond, a representative of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, who was in Warsaw for the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Do nast<\/strong><strong>\u0119pnego razu&#8230; <\/strong>(Till next time&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today some recent news from Poland. Former Polish president and anti-communist leader Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa unveiled a statue of Ronald Reagan on an elegant Warsaw street on Monday, honoring the late U.S. president for inspiring Poland&#8217;s toppling of communism (obalenie komunizmu). 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