What is Stanisław Kania?
{{Infobox President | name=Stanisław Kania |image =Stanisław Kania -1979-.jpg | nationality=[[Poland|Polish]] | order=[[Polish United Workers' Party|First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party]] | term_start=6 September 1980 | term_end=18 October 1981 | predecessor=[[Edward Gierek]] | successor=[[Wojciech Jaruzelski]] | birth_date={{Birth date|1927|3|8|df=y}} | birth_place=[[Wrocanka, Jasło County|Wrocanka]], [[Poland]] | death_date={{Death date and age|2020|3|3|1927|3|8|df=y}} | death_place=[[Warsaw]], [[Poland]] | spouse= | party=[[Polish United Workers' Party]] | religion= | profession= }} '''Stanisław Kania''' ({{IPA-pl|staˈɲiswaf ˈkaɲa}}; 8 March 1927 – 3 March 2020) was a [[Poles|Polish]] former [[communism|communist]] politician. He served as [[Polish United Workers' Party|First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party]] from September 1980 until his resignation in October 1981. He was replaced by Prime Minister Gen. [[Wojciech Jaruzelski]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Sebetsyen|first=Victor|title=Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire|url=https://archive.org/details/revolution1989fa00sebe|publisher=[[Pantheon Books]]|location=New York City|year=2009|isbn=0-375-42532-2}}</ref> Kania died on 3 March 2020 of [[pneumonia]] and [[heart failure]], 5 days before his 93rd birthday.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,25753856,nie-zyje-stanislaw-kania-byly-przywodca-polskiej-zjednoczonej.html?disableRedirects=true|title=Wyborcza.pl|website=wyborcza.pl|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Hevesi|first=Dennis|date=2020-03-03|title=Stanislaw Kania, 92, Polish Leader During Solidarity’s Rise, Dies|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/world/europe/stanislaw-kania-dead.html|access-date=2020-08-15|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> [[File:Stanisław Kania (grób) 01.jpg|thumb|The grave of politician and party activist Stanisław Kania on its funeral day at the [[Powązki Military Cemetery]] in [[Warsaw]], March 2020]] ==References== {{reflist}}{{Break}}