People ask me questions about Katyn warily...

I would also like to say that it is absurd to bring a person like Jaruzelski to court. Born into a family of patriotic nobles in 1923, he and his family were deported and thrown into a Soviet prison camp during the war, where his father died. He did almost the only thing he could do in that situation: he joined the Polish army units formed under Soviet command to fight for his country’s liberation.

After the war, he graduated from a military school and later became Poland’s leader at a time when his homeland was experiencing very difficult collision with the Soviet Union’s involvement

At the end of his political career, Jaruzelski could be considered, alongside Solidarity’s Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Lech Walesa, a founding father of a new democratic Poland, which has since won its rightful place in the new Europe.

Only very arrogant, crude people who see the world entirely in black and white would have the

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