People ask me questions about Katyn warily...
question the group members are often asked is whether we plan to move from events without living witnesses to more recent problems. For example, what inspired Wojciech Jaruzelski to introduce martial law in Poland in 1981?It should be said that in the early 1990s Russian newspapers published protocols of meetings of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee’s Politburo held in the early 1980s to discuss “assistance to fraternal Poland.” The book I mentioned above, which is to be published in summer, also has special chapters devoted to that period.
However, no protocol can provide a clear picture of the situation or the large number of pros and cons regarding the introduction of martial law in Poland which Jaruzelski and his colleagues had to consider. Jaruzelski said on more than one occasion that the situation was highly contradictory. The absence of any consensus in modern Polish society is another indicator of the complexity of the
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