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Waldemar Kuczynski
Waldemar Kuczynski, a former Minister of Privatization and close advisor to the first post-communist Prime Minister, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, was the main economic adviser to the government of Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek in 1997-2001. He was interned in 1981 along with the leaders of Solidarity.