I read this debate with great intrest. What Mr.Walesa did, is now part of
history and even Mr.Walesa himself could not change it. Mr.Walesa was welcomed
by US Europeans upto the extent of awarding him nobel peace prize.
appreciations from INDEPENDAT global media is over and aboe of being nobel
laurets. So now if we are analysing the history, we should do it in prescribed
parameters.
At this very time when he dosn't matter at all, why one should throw budle of
lies about him.
If the transcript didnt belongs to him, why he didn't go for its scientific
analysis and prove it scientifically wrong.
For us it is crystal clear that Mr.Walesa wasn't leading any revolutionary
movement but waging a war to make Poland a slave of market economyso why should
we bother. Someone said that he made his place in history, very true, he not
only made his place but his place is widely exposed by now.> Date: Tue, 24 Jun
2008 00:04:44 +0530> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
marxist-leninist-list@lists.econ.utah.edu> Subject: [MLL] Was Lech Walesa a Spy
for the Polish Revisionist Regime> >
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7469763.stm> > > Walesa scorns collaboration
claim > > By Adam Easton > BBC News, Warsaw > > > > > In Poland Lech Walesa is
a national hero. He is the man who, in the 1980s, led the Solidarity movement,
whose defiance of the country's then Communist government started a mass
movement which eventually led to its overthrow. > > > Lech Walesa calls the
claims "a fairy tale" > > So it is not surprising that a new book published on
Monday, accusing the former Nobel peace prize winner of being a communist
secret agent in the 1970s, has caused huge controversy here. > > The former
president strenuously denies the claims. > > The book, Lech Walesa and the
Secret Services, was written by two historians from the Institute of National
Memory, a state institution created to investigate Nazi and communist-era
crimes. > > Slawomir Cenckiewicz and Piotr Gontarczyk gathered material from
the institute's archive, which contains some 86km (54 miles) of communist
secret service files. > > "In the first half of the 1970s Lech Walesa was
treated by the communist secret services as an agent with the codename Bolek,"
Mr Cenckiewicz told me. > > This is all insinuation and part of the communist
secret service campaign against me > > Lech Walesa > > "The documents say he
wrote reports and informed on more than 20 people and some of them were
persecuted by the communist police. He identified people and eavesdropped on
his colleagues at work while they were listening to Radio Free Europe for
example." > > Similar accusations first surfaced 16 years ago, but this is the
first time a state institution has published a comprehensive investigation of
Lech Walesa's contacts with the communist secret services. > > The authors
allege that, as president in the 1990s, Lech Walesa, tried to cover up his past
by removing incriminating pages from his secret police file. > > 'Fairy tale' >
> The accusations have sharply divided Polish society. Poland's current
president, Lech Kaczynski, who fell out with Mr Walesa when he worked as one of
his advisers in the early 1990s, said in a national TV interview he was
convinced Mr Walesa was an agent. > > But Prime Minister Donald Tusk says the
accusations are politically motivated. > > When I put the book's claims to Mr
Walesa himself, he told me it was full of lies. > > I think that some people
now would like to destroy him, but I think he already has his place in our
history > > Young Polish woman > > "Nothing like that happened. I had no
influence over what the secret police did and wrote. You will not find any
signature of mine agreeing to collaborate anywhere. This is all insinuation and
part of the communist secret service campaign against me," he said. > > Mr
Walesa said a court had cleared him of any suggestion of collaboration when he
ran for a second term as president in 2000. He believes the communist
authorities falsified his file after he became leader of the Solidarity
movement in 1980, to discredit him in the eyes of the world. > > "They have
created this little fairy tale that Lech Walesa was a brave fighter but in his
youth he had a moment of weakness and worked for the secret police. They had to
turn up something about me, so they went into ancient history, making it
difficult to prove one way or the other," he said. > > Many eminent Poles have
also come to Mr Walesa's defence. They fear the book could even damage Poland's
reputation because Lech Walesa, whose trademark walrus moustache still makes
him instantly recognisable, is the one living Pole most foreigners know of. > >
Reputation undimmed > > The book's co-author, Piotr Gontarczyk, argues he had a
duty to reveal what he believes is the whole truth about him. > > "No serious
person denies the importance of Lech Walesa in Polish history. He will remain
forever the legendary Solidarity leader. Nobody in their right mind can take
that away from him. We have just filled in the unknown gaps in his biography
from the 1970s," he told me. > > On the streets of Warsaw, the people I asked
said the scandal had not influenced their opinion of the great man. > > "No, I
didn't change the way of thinking about President Walesa," a 49-year-old worker
for a non-governmental organisation said. > > "In my opinion he deserves much
more respect than condemnation actually and it's maybe true that as a young
worker he surrendered to the temptation of the secret service, but then with
all his work he showed that this was a mistake." > > "He was the face of the
whole change and for me it really doesn't matter. I think that some people now
would like to destroy him, but I think he already has his place in our
history," one young mother said. > > This scandal has dominated the front pages
and television news in the past few weeks. > > But it seems to have done little
damage to Lech Walesa's reputation. > > According to a recent survey, 60% of
Poles say even if he did collaborate with the communist police in his youth, he
remains a living legend for what he achieved afterwards in helping to bring
down the communist regime. > > > >
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