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Czesław Kiszczak

1925 - 2015

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Czesław Jan Kiszczak (Polish pronunciation: [ˈt͡ʂɛswaf ˈkʲiʂt͡ʂak] ; 19 October 1925 – 5 November 2015) was a Polish general, communist-era interior minister (1981–1990) and prime minister (1989). In 1981 he played a key role in imposing martial law and suppression of the Solidarity movement in Poland. But eight years later he presided over the country's transition to democracy as its last communist prime minister and a co-chairman of the Round Table conference, in which officials of the ruling Polish United Workers' Party faced the democratic opposition leaders. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Czesław Kiszczak has received more than 131,035 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Czesław Kiszczak is the 11,163rd most popular politician (up from 11,222nd in 2019), the 706th most popular biography from Poland (down from 702nd in 2019) and the 176th most popular Polish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Czesław Kiszczak ranks 11,163 out of 19,576. Before him are Andronikos Palaiologos, Agustín Gamarra, Knud Enemark Jensen, Kadashman-Enlil I, Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Hristo Lukov. After him are Luis Lacalle Pou, Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria, Emilie of Saxony, Audata, Abas I of Armenia, and Gunter Demnig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Czesław Kiszczak ranks 212. Before him are Zhores Medvedev, Matías González, Ilie Verdeț, Mike Connors, Robert Mulligan, and David Warren. After him are Otto Muehl, Theodore Hall, Carlo Rambaldi, José Napoleón Duarte, Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, and Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. Among people deceased in 2015, Czesław Kiszczak ranks 164. Before him are Jonah Lomu, Nils Christie, Natalia Molchanova, Richard Johnson, Elena Obraztsova, and Gene Amdahl. After him are Dragan Holcer, Chris Squire, Sergio Sollima, Richard Anthony, Phil Taylor, and Nora Brockstedt.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Czesław Kiszczak ranks 706 out of 1,694. Before him are Leo Baeck (1873), Stefan Rowecki (1895), Bernhard Goetzke (1884), Hugo von Pohl (1855), Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745), and Stefanie Zweig (1932). After him are Maria Wirtemberska (1768), Xaver Scharwenka (1850), Jacob Heinrich von Flemming (1667), Helena Modjeska (1840), Robert Gadocha (1946), and Stanislaus Hosius (1504).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Czesław Kiszczak ranks 176. Before him are Władysław Bartoszewski (1922), Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia (1943), August Zaleski (1883), Frederick II of Legnica (1480), Radosław Sikorski (1963), and Hugo von Pohl (1855). After him are Lothar Bisky (1941), Edward Bernard Raczyński (1891), Jan Olszewski (1930), Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1769), Rudolf Ramek (1881), and Kazimierz Sabbat (1913).

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