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...strewn with the detritus of his nation's recent struggles. Was he a Moscow stooge back in 1981 or a Polish patriot making an unpopular move to prevent the bloodbath of a Soviet invasion? Was he as pivotal a political player during the 1980s as trade-union leader Lech Walesa, or was his just a walk-on part that will quickly fade in memory...
...seems likely that historians will judge him more kindly than many of his contemporaries do. He may even find his way into Poland's pantheon of 20th century heroes, joining Walesa and Jozef Pilsudski as men who marched briskly to the tattoo of their times. "Some time will have to pass before Jaruzelski can be looked at by Poles in a completely objective way," says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences. "But time may work to his credit...
...book's first-person essays get progressively better, longer and more elaborate. Ash's accounts begin in warsaw in 1980, where as an observing historian, he met opposition leaders Lech Walesa and Adam Michnik even before Solidarity became a household world in the West...
Mazowiecki, whose refusal to accommodate the testy Nobel laureate caused a deep rift within Solidarity, last week went most of the way toward meeting Walesa's demands. In a major Cabinet reshuffle he dismissed three prominent former Communists and two other non-Solidarity ministers. The major casualties were Interior Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak, who interned thousands of Solidarity activists during the martial-law crackdown in 1981, and Florian Siwicki, Defense Minister since...
Mazowiecki may be hoping that, by removing the issues, he can demonstrate that the trade unionist's presidential bid is firmly rooted in personal ambition. He might be hoping as well that, in return for a crack at the country's top job, Walesa will allow the government to get on with governing...