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Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, former chairperson of Poland
105th Landon Lecture
March 11, 1996
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Jaruzelski, General Wojciech - ,, A biography against contemporary development in Poland
1 Introduction
In the following pages I will describe the policy of General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Minister of Defence (1968-85), Prime Minister (1981-85), Secretary of PZPR (1981-1989) and President (1989-90) of Peoples Republic of Poland1,2. I try to make clear the motives of the policy and their affects on politics and society of the most disputable political figure in most recent Polish history or like the critical Polish author Kazimiersz Brandys wrote in 1981: „This Prime Minister and Party Secretary in generals uniform is a mysterious character. What is hiding behind these dark glasses: Poland or Rus- sia? The dreamers a whispering: Wallenrod. The sceptic rather think about historic closer characters. Realists are silent.“3
I will put stress on following events, his reign as Prime Minister and Party Secretary during the Solidarity movement, the imposing of Martial Law, the period of normalisation between 1983 and 1989 and finally his role in the Round Table process and the „Velvet Revolution“.
2 Prime Minister and Party Secretary (1981)
As General W. Jaruzelski stepped on the stage in February 1981 not much was known about him in public. From his biography two contrary tend
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Wojciech Jaruzelski
Leader of Poland from 1981 to 1989
Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (VOY-chekh YAH-roo-ZEL-skee; Polish:[ˈvɔjt͡ɕɛxˈvʲitɔltjaruˈzɛlskʲi]ⓘ; 6 July 1923 – 25 May 2014) was a Polish military general, politician and de facto leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1981 until 1989. He was the First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party between 1981 and 1989, making him the last leader of the Polish People's Republic. Jaruzelski served as Prime Minister from 1981 to 1985, the Chairman of the Council of State from 1985 to 1989 and briefly as President of Poland from 1989 to 1990, when the office of President was restored after 37 years. He was also the last commander-in-chief of the Polish People's Army, which in 1990 became the Polish Armed Forces.
Born to Polish nobility in Kurów in eastern (then-central) Poland, Jaruzelski was deported with his family to Siberia by the NKVD after the invasion of Poland. Assigned to forced labour in the Siberian wilderness, he developed photokeratitis which forced him to wear protective sunglasses for the rest of his life. In 1943, Jaruzelski joined the newly created First Polish Army and fought alongside the Soviets against Nazi Germany in the Eastern Front, most notably in the liberation of Warsaw an