Twenty-five years after the Solidarity crisis that engulfed Poland and marked the beginning of the end of eastern European communism, the country’s leader at the time, General Jaruzelski, is facing ruin. The hard-right government of the twin Kaczynski brothers — Prime Minister Jaroslaw and President Lech — is determined to strip him of his rank and pension.
The daughter of one of the world’s most reviled men looks you straight in the eye when she speaks and you cannot help but remember the fuzzy TV pictures of her, wide-eyed and brandishing a gun. Marija Milosevic pulled out her pistol and fired wildly when her father was arrested.