Polish President ~ Lech Kaczynski

WARSAW - Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who died on Saturday in a plane crash in Russia, was a militant anti-Communist who was long associated with his twin brother to his country in a nationalist direction too conservative. Kaczynski, 60, has pursued a very pro-American foreign policy, according to a consensus between the parties that in Poland developed after the fall of communism. There was a strong supporter of plans for a U.S. missile defense system in the country to build the largest new EU members from Eastern Europe. Prickly nationalism Kaczynski and his twin brother Jaroslaw - have long been served as prime minister and now opposition leader - sometimes complicated relations with European neighbors and Russia. Lech Kaczynski has long against the reform of the EU was called before the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon in November last year. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Kaczynski brothers were activists of the anti-communist opposition and continue to serve as advisers to Solidarity founder Lech Walesa. Kaczynski supported the presidential candidacy in 1990, Walesa became the chief adviser to the president on security issues. His collaboration with Walesa ended in bitter political differences and Walesa was defeated in 1995 by former communist Aleksander Kwasniewski. Kaczynski was justice minister in Poland in the years 2000-2001, and his strong stance against crime has laid the foundation for the popularity of the fuel according to the proposed takeover of the presidency. He was mayor of Warsaw in 2001 and has earned the respect of a sober style and reputation speaks ..