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5 unusual facts about Wojciech Jaruzelski


1981 warning strike in Poland

In Bydgoszcz, a two-hour warning strike took place (March 21), and in a special communique, Solidarity announced that the Bydgoszcz events was a provocation, aimed at the government of Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski.

Cabinet of Czesław Kiszczak

Czesław Kiszczak was appointed Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland by President Wojciech Jaruzelski on August 2, 1989, replacing Mieczysław Rakowski.

Egon Krenz

Alongside the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev and Poland's Wojciech Jaruzelski, he is the youngest of the last surviving leaders of an Eastern Bloc nation as of 2014.

Hanna Krall

Shortly after, Wojciech Jaruzelski, then Prime Minister of the former People's Republic of Poland, declared martial law, Krall left "Polityka" and wrote articles for the "Gazeta Wyborcza" some time later.

Norm Sanders

The delegation then proceeded to Poland to meet with General Wojciech Jaruzelski.


Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland

# Michał Janiszewski (September 1989 - December 21, 1990) - under President Wojciech Jaruzelski


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