Jaruzelski invited Soviet Invasion

11th December 2009

Communist general faces further accusations of betraying Poland

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Poland’s last communist leader has been accused of committing high treason after documents alleging to show he called for a Soviet invasion of Poland to help crush striking workers were released.

The Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) says it has documentary proof that General Wojciech Jaruzelski, now 86, requested the Kremlin’s help just days before imposing martial law.

According to the memo released on Tuesday by the IPN, Jaruzelski met with an aide-de-camp to the head of the Warsaw Pact forces, Soviet Marshal Viktor Kulikov. At the meeting, according to the document, Jaruzelski requested Moscow’s ‘brotherly’ help.

The General has denied the allegations, branding them ...

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