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Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (/ ˈ v ɔɪ tʃ ɛ x ˌ j ɑː r uː ˈ z ɛ l s k i / VOY-chekh YAH-roo-ZEL-skee; Polish: [ˈvɔjt͡ɕɛx ˈvʲitɔlt jaruˈzɛlskʲi] ⓘ; 6 July 1923 – 25 May 2014) was a Polish military general, politician and de facto leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1981 until 1989.
Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (born July 6, 1923, Kurow, Poland—died May 25, 2014, Warsaw) was a Polish army general and political leader who served as premier (1981–85), chairman of the Council of State (1985–89), and president (1989–90) during the final years of communist rule in Poland, but he eventually oversaw the country’s move to ...
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May 25, 2014 · Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the last Communist leader of Poland, who sent tanks to crush Solidarity’s stirrings for democracy in 1981 and went on to preside over the death of the system that had...
May 25, 2014 · WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the communist leader who imposed harsh military rule on Poland in 1981 in an attempt to crush the pro-democracy Solidarity movement but years later allowed reforms that ended up dismantling the regime, has died at age 90.
May 25, 2014 · Poland's last Communist leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski has died aged 90 after a long illness, Polish media say. Gen Jaruzelski led Poland from 1981, when he declared martial law and ordered...
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May 25, 2014 · Poland's last communist leader, the general in tinted glasses who was best known for his 1981 martial law crackdown on the Solidarity union, died Sunday at age 90 after a long struggle with...
May 25, 2014 · General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's last communist leader who imposed martial law to crush the Solidarity movement only to hand over power less than a decade later, died aged 90 on...
