Ewa Kopacz (R), the newly elected speaker of the parliament, chats with former Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw November 8, 2011. REUTERS/Peter Andrews
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's first prime minister after the fall of communism, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, died on Monday at the age of 86, Polish media reported.
Mazowiecki, who emerged from Poland's dissident intellectual tradition, was famously photographed making a victory sign after his election for prime minister, which marked the beginning of the end of 40 years of Cold War politics in Eastern Europe.
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