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Le général Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski est un homme d'État et militaire polonais né le 6 juillet 1923 à Kurów et mort le 25 mai 2014 à Varsovie. Il a été le dernier dirigeant du régime communiste polonais.

Premier secrétaire du Parti ouvrier unifié polonais et chef du gouvernement, puis chef de l'État de la république populaire de Pologne de 1981 à 1989, il est surtout connu pour le long bras de fer qui l'opposa au syndicat Solidarność, qu'il réprima en décembre 1981 en faisant interner des milliers de ses militants syndicaux, ainsi que son meneur, Lech Wałęsa, pendant près d'un an. La répression s'avérant impuissante, la situation économique et sociale se dégradant toujours plus et la perestroïka battant son plein depuis trois ans en URSS, le général Jaruzelski accepta, devant la menace de nouvelles grèves et sans doute dans l'espoir de conserver la réalité du pouvoir, d'entamer des négociations avec l'opposition anticommuniste incarnée par le syndicat Solidarność. Ces négociations aboutiront aux accords de la « Table ronde », puis aux élections parlementaires semi-libres de juin 1989 et à une transition pacifique vers la démocratie. Le général Jaruzelski s'efface définitivement de la vie publique fin 1990 lorsque son ancien ennemi, Lech Wałęsa, le remplace à la tête de la Pologne. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. juillet 1923 – 25. mai 2014
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Wojciech Jaruzelski: Citations en anglais

“To make tomorrow better we must realize tough realities today, to understand the necessity for renunciation.”

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Excerpts of Martial law speech (14 December 1981)

“Our soldier's hands are clean; he knows his hard service ... and has no other aim but the good of the nation.”

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Excerpts of Martial law speech (14 December 1981)

“We are a sovereign country so we must get out from this crisis by ourselves. We must draw away danger with our own hands. History would never forgive the present generation for wasting this chance.”

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Source: Excerpts of Martial law speech (14 December 1981)

“The steps taken today serve to preserve the basic features of socialist renewal. All the reforms will be continued in an atmosphere of order, businesslike discussion and discipline, also economic reform.”

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Source: Excerpts of Martial law speech (14 December 1981)

“We wish a great Poland, great with its achievements, culture, forms of social life, its position in Europe. The only way to gain this is by socialism accepted by society, constantly enriched by the everyday life experience.”

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Source: Excerpts of Martial law speech (14 December 1981)

“Citizens. Great is the burden of responsibility that falls on me at this dramatic moment in Polish history. It is my duty to take this responsibility. Poland’s future is at stake-the future for which my generation fought and for which it gave the best years of its life.”

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Source: Excerpts of Martial law speech (14 December 1981)

“The self-preservation instinct of the nation must be heard. Adventurists must have their hands tied before they push the homeland into the abyss of fratricide.”

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Source: Excerpts of Martial law speech (14 December 1981)

“The nation has come to the end of its psychological endurance. Many people are beginning to despair. Now it is not days but hours that separate us from a national catastrophe. Honesty compels one to ask the question: Did things have to come to this?”

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Source: Excerpts of Martial law speech (14 December 1981)

“I do not make any promises. But I do promise one thing - anarchy will not be allowed into Poland. Let no one in Poland or outside cherish any illusions that the present decisions will allow for another round.”

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Source: Speech on 1982

“The absence of a decision could result in an impetuous, dangerous development of a situation which has got out of any control. There is no ideal solution in such circumstances. The only thing is to find the optimal solution, "a lesser evil."”

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Source: Speech at Kansas State University (11 March 1996)

“Exactly one year ago martial law was introduced. The year that has passed was a great test. We have passed it. It has been passed by the party, by the people's authority and all the citizens. But there is the only winner: the Polish nation. This is the shortest-put truth about the past year.”

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Source: Speech on 1982

“It cannot be said that we didn't show good will, moderation, patience, sometimes there probably was too much of it ... the initiative of the great national understanding was backed by millions of Poles.”

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Source: Excerpts of Martial law speech (14 December 1981)

“The introduction of martial law was the most dramatic decision I had ever taken. And life had treated me harshly. I experienced my country's tragedy in 1939.”

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Source: Speech at Kansas State University (11 March 1996)

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