Solidarity leader a commie spy?
By Dave
June 26th, 2008 | Leave a comment
A new book released in Poland claims that former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, who later served as post-Communist Poland’s president and won a Nobel Peace Prize, was a spy for the Communist secret service in the 1970s.
Walesa denied the claims and threatened to sue the authors.
“Life is complicated sometimes,” said co-author Piotr Gontarczyk, as reported by German broadcaster ARD. “He was a young deckhand then. And according to our documents he started to work for the secret police in the 1970s.”
Critics of the book say it’s nothing more than right-wing political extremists trying to make political gain by bashing Walesa.
Walesa led a strike at the shipyards in 1980, thrusting himself to global fame and helping bring down communism in the Soviet block toward the end of the decade. He then became president of Poland from 1990 to 1995.
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