Full Text of HR1102 96th General Assembly
HR1102 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Polish | 4 |
| President Lech Kaczynski, who was tragically killed, along with | 5 |
| his wife, Maria, in an airplane crash, on April 10, 2010; and
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| WHEREAS, President Kaczynski was traveling with a Polish | 7 |
| delegation to Russia for the 70th anniversary of the Russian | 8 |
| massacre of Polish prisoners of war in the village of Katyn; | 9 |
| the event was to be a milestone in the easing of relations | 10 |
| between Russia and Poland; and | 11 |
| WHEREAS, President Kaczynski was a one-time anti-communist | 12 |
| activist who teamed up with his twin brother to take his | 13 |
| country in a nationalist, conservative direction; he pursued a | 14 |
| strongly pro-U.S. line in foreign relations, in accordance with | 15 |
| a cross-party consensus that has grown in Poland since the fall | 16 |
| of communism; and
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| WHEREAS, He first rose to fame as a child movie star, | 18 |
| alongside his identical twin, in a hit movie in 1962, "Two Who | 19 |
| Stole the Moon," about two troublemakers who try to get rich by | 20 |
| stealing the moon and selling it; in the 1970s and 1980s, the | 21 |
| Kaczynski brothers were activists in the anti-communist | 22 |
| opposition and went on to serve as advisers to Solidarity |
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| founder Lech Walesa; he supported Walesa's presidential bid in | 2 |
| 1990 and became the chief presidential adviser on security | 3 |
| issues; and
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| WHEREAS, He served as Poland's justice minister in | 5 |
| 2000-2001, and his tough stance against crime laid the | 6 |
| foundations for the popularity that would fuel his later rise | 7 |
| to the presidency; he became mayor of Warsaw in 2001, and won | 8 |
| respect for a no-nonsense style and plain-speaking reputation; | 9 |
| in seeking the presidency in 2005, he made clean government a | 10 |
| key pledge; and
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| WHEREAS, President Kaczynski was a firm friend of Poland's | 12 |
| Jewish community, which has enjoyed a revival in recent years | 13 |
| after it was nearly wiped out in the Holocaust and later | 14 |
| suffered from communist-era repression; in 2008, he became the | 15 |
| first head of state to attend a religious service at a | 16 |
| synagogue in Poland; as mayor, he promoted a planned museum on | 17 |
| Jewish history by donating city land to the project; and
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| WHEREAS, President Kaczynski is survived by his daughter, | 19 |
| Marta; his two granddaughters, Ewa and Martyna; his twin | 20 |
| brother, Jaroslaw; and his mother, Jadwiga; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 22 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
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| mourn, along with his family, friends, the people of Poland, | 2 |
| and people around the world, the passing of President Lech | 3 |
| Kaczynski; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 5 |
| presented to the family of President Lech Kaczynski as a symbol | 6 |
| of our sincere sympathy.
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