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/ 3 April 2007

A right-wing witch-hunt

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.