Posted on 02/05/2007 1:34:54 PM PST by lizol
Jaruzelski – from General to Private?
05.02.2007
Work is under way on a bill which would automatically degrade all the high-ranking military officials who installed martial law in Poland in 1981.
This would concern members of the erstwhile so-called Military Council for National Salvation. The council was headed by Wojciech Jaruzelski and also included generals Czesław Kiszczak, Florian Siwicki and the first Polish cosmonaut Mirosław Hermaszewski.
The bill is to be completed in March, when it is to be tabled before Parliament.
The Poles definitely have not forgotten martial law or the Communist/Russian control of their country.
It seems (as far as I can tell) as though the rest of eastern Europe has let bygones be bygones.
The Poles seem in no such mood to do that.
Good for Poland.
So...in effect, they are yanking their retirement benefits?
The effect, will be, that their retirement benefits will be like those of a regular "grey" Pole.
Today they get several times more (as retired generals).
Seems just.
Jaruzelski should consider himself lucky that he didn't share Saddam's fate.
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