…and maybe General Jaruselski really was a patriot
(ES) Vienna, April 7, 2022
A TV documentary by Jan Czarlewski (Polish/Engish with French subtitles) about the crushing of Solidarnosc and the imposition of martial law on December 13, 1981 was watched by a TV audience of over a million in Poland in December 2021. AEJ Honorary President Otmar Lahodynsky (at 9.50) was among the eye-witnesses interviewed for the film besides Bernard Guetta, Prof Norman Davies, Wolf Biermann, and Rita Süssmuth, among others.
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The Soviet tank manoeuvres on the Polish border shown in the film are reminiscent of Ukraine now. Both Lahodynsky and the AEJ Secretary-General were correspondents in Poland during the 1980s, and have argued that General Wojciech Jaruzelski may have been unfairly traduced- as he insisted till his death he was – and that he prevented a much bloodier suppression of Solidarity and of the country which gave the movement birth.
LINKS
- Jan Czarlewski film 2021
- Commissioner Thierry Breton on Russian fake news. Telegram main conduit.