I got this from Hot Air.
Poland to award Reagan with highest distinction
Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:03AM EDTWARSAW (Reuters) – Poland will award late U.S. president Ronald Reagan one of its highest distinctions to recognize his role in the downfall of communism in Europe, the president’s office told Reuters on Wednesday.Polish President Lech Kaczynski will present the Order of the White Eagle to Nancy Reagan, the former president’s widow, during a visit to the United States next week.”The president noted the award should recognize Reagan’s 8-year presidency and his contribution to the downfall of communism in this part of Europe,” said Lena Dabkowska-Cichocka, sub-secretary in the president’s office.Many Poles credit Reagan, who took office in 1981, with helping the anti-communist movement in eastern Europe.
He was known for portraying the Soviet Union as an “evil empire” and supporting Poland’s Solidarity movement which pushed the Eastern European country to become the first in the region to shake off communism in 1989.
(Copyright Reuters 2007) We here all know about this sort of stuff, but other readers maybe don’t. I also remember a new item on one of the days Thatcher visited Poland; “Polish Young Conservatives welcome Margaret Teacher” (sic.) I bet any reader of this bolg (I like “bolg”, so it will stay) 5p, from now until I may die, that no such award of the same level of distinction will be forthcoming to any of the Kennedeath clan, from any nation in the following list; Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia. That’s all pretty safe so I will add Russia, to make things a bit exciting.
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