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Trump's treatment of Zelensky filled him with 'horror'--Poland's former Pres. Walesa

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Lech Walesa ITB 2011.
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Poland's democracy hero, former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Lech Walesa, and dozens of other former political prisoners in Poland have written a letter to Pres. Trump, telling him that his treatment of Ukrain's Pres. Zelinskyy at the Oval Office last week filled them with horror and distaste. Walesa posted the letter on Facebook on along with a photograph of himself with Trump. It was signed by himself and 38 other former democracy activists who were imprisoned by Poland's Moscow-backed communist regime before 1989. We were also terrified by the fact that the atmosphere in the Oval Office during this conversation reminded us of the one we remember well from interrogations by the Security Service and from the courtrooms in communist courts, ey wrote.

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