- Author:
Adam Cherek
- Year of publication:
2013
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
384-410
- DOI Address:
http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ksm201326
- PDF:
ksm/18/ksm201326.pdf
Election posters of “Citizens’ committee with Lech Wałęsa” candidates
The article solves the mystery of the “Citizens’ Committee with Lech Wałęsa” election posters that paved the way to the victory of Solidarity in June 1989. For 25 years the issue of posters has not raised any controversy. The historians presupposed that each member of the Committee had had an election poster with the leader of Solidarity movement on it. The article refutes that myth. Having analyzed historical documents and eyewitness memories, the author uncovers which candidates did not have this kind of poster.
- Author:
Henryk Marek Składanowski
- Institution:
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
- Year of publication:
2020
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
45-66
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/rop2020103
- PDF:
rop/11/rop1103.pdf
Th is study aims to determine whether the decision of the V Lustration Department of the Court of Appeal in Warsaw issued in 2000, that Lech Wałęsa was not a secret collaborate of the former Security Service of the Polish People’s Republic (PPR), was a correct one. Marek Aft yka’s “briefi ng memo” and Proceedings of Regional Court in Gdańsk I Civil Department in 2010 in a case brought by Lech Wałęsa against Krzysztof Wyszkowski were researched in this article.
It is stated that individual decisions of judges in 2000 were wrong in this case, which was confi rmed on February 16, 2016 by fi nding the personal and working fi les of the secret collaborate codename “Bolek”. Analysis of the sources demonstrated that Wałęsa he did not consider the cooperation with the prosecution and security institutions, as well as with the state of real socialism as something wrong. At the same time, former Polish president, as a well-trained agent, will never admit to the cooperation.