Russians want Jaruzelski in Moscow

2nd April 2010

Jaruzelski has been officially invited to Moscow

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The attendance of President Lech Kaczynski at ceremonies in Moscow to mark the anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe was cast into doubt after the Kremlin extended an invitation to General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s last communist leader.

The president, a former activist for Solidarity, has always had little time for the general, who crushed the union in 1981 through the introduction of martial law, and the prospect of sitting down next to him on Red Square will no doubt lack appeal.

“President Lech Kaczynski has doubts about travelling to Moscow to attend the festivities after General Wojciech Jaruzelski received an invitation from Russia,” Aleksander Szczy ...

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