Marek Kuchciński, Speaker of the Sejm, took part in celebrations marking the 70th birthday anniversary of Lech Kaczyński - President of Poland, President of Warsaw, Chairman of the Supreme Chamber of Control and Minister of Justice. Lech Kaczyński, together with his brother Jarosław, was also a founder of the Law and Justice party and its first president. He was a senator of the first term and a member of the Sejm of the first and fourth term. He was a Doctor of Laws, Associate Professor of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw and University of Gdansk, specialist in labor law. He died in the crash of the government plane Tu-154 in Smoleńsk in 2010.
Today is also the 70th birthday of Jaroslaw Kaczynski - chairman of the Law and Justice party, prime minister, democratic opposition activist, from 1989 to 1991 senator of the first term, from 1991 to 1993 and from 1997 member of the Sejm of the first, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth terms, also founder of the "Porozumienie Centrum" party.

Below is an excerpt The book "Lech Kaczyński. A Political Biography":

It was Saturday, June 18, 1949. For five years Poland had been in Soviet hands. The capital city of the Republic of Poland, rising from the ruins of war, was a witness of constant repressions, terror, show trials and political murders. On that very day one of the most shameful political trials of the People's Republic of Poland was beginning before the Military District Court in Warsaw - the trial of Adam Doboszyński, a national camp activist accused of, among others, cooperation with the intelligence of the Third Reich and the United States. (...)

On 18 June 1949, Jadwiga née Jasiewicz and her husband Rajmund Kaczyński were staying in a small cooperative apartment at 3/216 Paweł Suzina Street in Żoliborz, which belonged to Jadwiga's parents. They were expecting a child. The birth took place at home (there was an epidemic of pemphigus in the hospital), it was hard and long (it lasted 24 hours). They were expecting a daughter, but two boys were born, twins - Lech Aleksander and Jarosław Aleksander.

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