Jaruzelski angry that Poles question his patriotism
"Suggestions that [Jaruzelski] is anything but a [Polish] patriot provoke a quick and angry reaction" from the longtime Soviet collaborator, the Associated Press reports.
Before the recent news that Jaruzelski's communist-era archive show that he became a secret collaborator with Stalin's GRU military intelligence in 1946, the former dictator made headlines of his own in Russia when
Since his seizure of power in 1981, Jaruzelski claimed he acted not as a repressor of his people or traitor to his country, but as a selfless patriot to prevent a Soviet invasion during the political disintegration of the Polish communist party.
Jaruzelski joined the Soviet-controlled Polish resistance army during World War II after he and his family were deported to Siberia, where his father died. Despite what the Soviets did to his family, Jaruzelski continued after the war as a servant of Stalin.
Patriotic Poles joined the democratic resistance army allied with the British and the United States.
AP reported on May 23 that "lashed out at the most recent attack against him – a threat by right-wing politicians to strip him of his general's rank and pension for behavior they deemed too pro-Moscow during his visit to Russia for the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II."
In the mid-1990s, the Polish parliament cleared Jaruzelski of having violated the constitution by overthrowing the civilian communist regime and placing the country under his military rule. The parliament was dominated by former communists who had their own Soviet collaboration to account for. It passed laws making it a crime to reveal the identities of people who secretly collaborated with Stalin and his successors during the Soviet occupation.
Jaruzelski is now on trial - stalled in a legal system that remains corrupted by collaborationist judges - for the 1970 killings of shipyard workers, when he ran the military as defense minister.
Before the recent news that Jaruzelski's communist-era archive show that he became a secret collaborator with Stalin's GRU military intelligence in 1946, the former dictator made headlines of his own in Russia when
Since his seizure of power in 1981, Jaruzelski claimed he acted not as a repressor of his people or traitor to his country, but as a selfless patriot to prevent a Soviet invasion during the political disintegration of the Polish communist party.
Jaruzelski joined the Soviet-controlled Polish resistance army during World War II after he and his family were deported to Siberia, where his father died. Despite what the Soviets did to his family, Jaruzelski continued after the war as a servant of Stalin.
Patriotic Poles joined the democratic resistance army allied with the British and the United States.
AP reported on May 23 that "lashed out at the most recent attack against him – a threat by right-wing politicians to strip him of his general's rank and pension for behavior they deemed too pro-Moscow during his visit to Russia for the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II."
In the mid-1990s, the Polish parliament cleared Jaruzelski of having violated the constitution by overthrowing the civilian communist regime and placing the country under his military rule. The parliament was dominated by former communists who had their own Soviet collaboration to account for. It passed laws making it a crime to reveal the identities of people who secretly collaborated with Stalin and his successors during the Soviet occupation.
Jaruzelski is now on trial - stalled in a legal system that remains corrupted by collaborationist judges - for the 1970 killings of shipyard workers, when he ran the military as defense minister.
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