Former Polish prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki walks past the coffins of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria at the President's Palace in Warsaw April 13, 2010. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish statesman Tadeusz Mazowiecki, whose appointment in 1989 as the first non-communist prime minister in the Soviet bloc helped usher in democratic change across eastern Europe, died on Monday aged 86.
Tributes poured in from Poland, Germany and beyond for the shy former dissident intellectual who was famously photographed making a victory sign in August 1989 after his appointment by the Soviet-backed Polish president, General Wojciech Jaruzelski.
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