[dfwgator]

I was of the mind that the general had acted in a minor manner, enough to keep the Soviets from coming in full-speed, guns and tanks a blazing. I was of the mind that he did the minimum possible to keep the Soviets from storming in. This doesn't make him a hero, but he strikes me differently than the Andropov types.

Wrong. These are the facts:

- Jaruzelski was told months before that the Soviets would not invade Poland, even in the event Solidarity gained power. They were bogged down in Afghanistan, and with Reagan in the White House, they weren't going to chance it.

- Jaruzelski, begged the Soviets to reconsider, he wanted a Soviet invasion, or at the very least, for the Soviets to keep invasion a legitimate threat.

- To gain support, he lied to the military, claiming that invasion was imminent, even though he knew otherwise.

Jaruzelski is a traitor, who should have gotten the Ceausescu treatment.

[sittnick]

See my post #6. You and JoAnka convinced me. Hey, at the time I was an 18 year old largely reliant on the MSM!

[lizol]

This is a unique picture, that has not been published before. Moscow, Kremlin, April 24, 1984 - Jaruzelski receiving platinium-golden Order of Lenin - the highest Soviet decoration, that was basically given to Soviet citizens only (no other Pole has ever got it). The guy next to him is Konstantin Chernenko.

That was a prize for the Martial Law.