It fell to the Catholic journalist and opposition activist Mazowiecki to be modern Poland’s first non-Communist prime minister and to start the road to recovery. Though he was in office for less than 17 months, from August 1989 to January 1991, he managed to set Poland on a path toward a market economy and NATO and European Union membership.
身为现代波兰首任非共产党总理，天主教记者兼反对派活动家马佐维耶茨基承担起了带领波兰走上复兴之路的重任。虽然从1989年8月到1991年1月执政还不到17个月，他仍然成功带领波兰走上了市场经济的道路，并成为了北约及欧盟成员。