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...World War II, Joseph Stalin demanded a large chunk of Polish and German territory for the Soviet Union. In compensation to the Poles, Germany was forced to give up the province of Silesia to Poland, which immediately began deporting Germans and rooting out German influence...
...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...
...past in many ways personifies the abiding Polish dilemma born of geography and the hard knocks of history. Jaruzelski was 16 when Nazi Germany attacked Poland in 1939, and he recalls vividly how, on a clear September day 51 years ago, he and his family crossed into Lithuania as refugees. "I thought then that the heavens had fallen in on me," Jaruzelski recalls. "We were convinced that we would return home soon, that an English-French offensive would enable the Polish army to go on fighting against the Germans. It was not to happen...
...refugees, the teenager was deported to Siberia. It was there, during three years of forced labor, he was struck by the snow blindness that later forced him to wear his famed tinted glasses. Only in 1944 could Jaruzelski return to Poland, and only then as a recruit in a Polish army put together by Stalin...
...finger-pointing debate starts on whether -- and who in -- Washington might have given an unintentional wink and nod. -- Gorbachev asks for the power to decree economic reform, but who cares? Power is passing to the republics anyway. -- History is likely to remember General Jaruzelski more fondly than do his Polish countrymen...