Posted on 12/09/2009 12:48:41 PM PST by lizol
New Evidence Shows Poland’s Ex-Dictator Jaruzelski Guilty Of High Treason
By Marcin Sobczyk
What should a democratic state do with an ex-dictator, the leader of a military junta, who, due to a shady political deal with dissidents, has gone unharmed for twenty years after the collapse of his regime, and suddenly a document gets revealed providing hard evidence that the dictator committed treason?
This question has stopped being theoretical and begs an answer in Poland, whose ex-dictator Wojciech Jaruzelski, in the light of an archive document, appears to have begged the Soviet Union to occupy his nation to save his junta.
Until now, Jaruzelski and his defenders have insisted the ex-dictator is a tragic figure who deserves pity, but not contempt for quenching a democratic movement and introducing the martial law in 1981 that led to imprisonments and deaths because he wanted to prevent the greater evil, a Soviet military intervention.
But according to an archived document that has just been released by a state-financed historical institute, in 1981, just days before introducing the martial law, Jaruzelski had a long conversation with a Soviet military leader, in which he begged for that very intervention if the situation gets out of hand.
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—Norway didn’t waste too much time in 1945 with a fellow named Quisling—
Is Jaruzelski on trial or scheduled to be put on trial? I thought that former Soviet satellites that are now EU members had to agree not to put previous leaders on trial.Of course I could be wrong....and hope I am.I’d love to see former leaders of East Germany,Poland,Czechoslovakia,etc in the dock!
Bastard should have been shot years ago.
I recommend he be introduced to Mr. and Mrs. Ceausescu.
He’s not quite dead yet? That’s a surprise.
He is on trial.
But the court doctors said recently, that - due to the state of his health - the trial may be scheduled only twice a week, and not longer that 2 hours a day.
Which means, that he trial is going to last for ages.
And you know what in means, having in mind Jaruzelski’s age.
Neither did the Netherlands with Anton Mussert.
Send him to live in Russia. That oughta do it.
So I guess I'm wrong about EU member nations putting former leaders on trial.
IIRC,their trial was completed in about 10 minutes and the appeals process took another 10 minutes.
Yeah, maybe 20 minutes, if you count the time it took to drag them down to the street by their hair and load the guns.
Former East German dictator Egon Krenz wound up serving prison time. Erich Honnecker was extradited from Russia, tried, and was then exiled due to his failing health. He died in Chile.
No problem to hang a sick dictator — he’ll get over it.
Hang the SOB. It’ll set precedence, a warning and an example for the various dictators around the world, including the current traitors infesting the whitehouse and congress.
I’m not 100% sure about this.
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