“Enough!” Tusk warns controversial IPN

3rd April 2009

Solidarity hero, Lech Walesa, says he will leave Poland if accusations persist

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Prime Minister Donald Tusk issued a sharp warning this week to the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), the state organisation charged with investigating communist-era crimes: remain politically neutral or face closure. “The Institute will survive only if it maintains political and ideological neutrality. If it continues to display one-sided views publicly, it will be forced to close,” Tusk said.

The blunt ultimatum comes following the IPN’s publication of a second book accusing former Solidarity hero, Lech Walesa, of being a communist agent.

The 65-year-old nobel prize winner and former president has since said that if such “revolting, barbarian slander” continues, he will ...

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